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TIL: Martin Luther King Jr. plagiarized a significant portion of his doctoral dissertation from a dissertation written by another student three years earlier. King also plagiarized a portion of his “I Have a Dream” speech from Archibald Carey Jr.’s address to the 1952 Republican National Convention.

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