Many Americans don't know enough about MLK. After taking this quiz, you will see how little the schools, news media and political establishment have told you about the only American with his own
holiday.
1) Name the judge who has sealed King's FBI surveillance file until
the year 2027.
Answer: The Honorable John Lewis Smith, Jr.
2) According to whose 1989 biography did King spend his last night on earth in an adulterous liaison?
Answer: Reverend Ralph Abernathy. "And the Walls Came Tumbling Down"
3) According to whose 1989 biography did King spend his last morning on earth physically beating a woman?
Answer: Reverend Ralph Abernathy. "And the Walls Came Tumbling Down"
4) Who was the U.S. Attorney General who ordered the FBI to wiretap
King?
Answer: Robert F. Kennedy
5) Who was the Assistant Director of the FBI who wrote a letter to
Sen. John P. East (R-NC) describing King's conduct of "orgiastic and
adulterous escapades, some of which indicated that King could be
bestial in his sexual abuse of women."
Answer: Charles D. Brennan
6) Who called King a "hypocrite preacher."
Answer: President Lyndon B. Johnson
7) What U.S. newspaper reported that King had plagiarized his
doctoral thesis at Boston University.
Answer: The Wall Street Journal
8) Whom did King plagiarize in more than 50 complete sentences in his doctoral thesis?
Answer: Dr. Jack Boozer
9) Who was the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities who purposely suppressed knowledge of King's plagiarism of his doctoral thesis?
Answer: Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Richard Cheney
10) What was Martin Luther King's real name?
Answer: Michael King, Jr. In 1935 his father, Michael King, declared
to his congregation that he wound henceforth be known as Martin
Luther King and his son would be known as Martin Luther King, Jr.
11) In his first public sermon at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in 1947
who did King plagiarize?
Answer: Harry Emerson Fosdick
12) Name the man who served as King's personal secretary from 1955 to 1960, had joined the Young Communists League at New York City College in 1936, went to prison for draft evasion in 1944, and in 1953 was sentenced to 60 days in jail in California "lewd vagrancy and homosexual perversion."
Answer: Bayard Rustin
13) According to whom had King "privately described himself as a
Marxist."
Answer: His biographer, David J. Garrow
14) Who edited King's book Stride Toward Freedom?
Answer: Communist Stanley Levison
15) Who made the following speech?
That's exactly what we mean-- from every mountain side, let freedom
ring.Not only from the Green Mountains and White Mountains of Vermont and New Hampshire; not only from the Catskills of New York; but from the Ozarks in Arkansas, from Stone Mountain in Georgia, from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia --let it ring not only for the minorities of the United States, but for the disinherited of all the earth--from every mountainside, LET FREEDOM RING!
Answer: Archibald Carey, 1952
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If you got no questions correct it means that you are exactly the kind of ignorant citizen your government desires.
1-3 questions correct means you could be dangerous.
4-6 questions correct means you must read to much.
7-10 questions correct means you must value historical correctness instead of political correctness.
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have remained skeptical of the notion that a single individual could bring about major social changes. While conceding that King's presence may have sped the pace of social change or caused such change to occur with less violence, I discounted the Great Man theory of history, arguing instead: "If King had never lived, the black struggle would have followed a course of development similar to the one it did."
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Our discovery of extensive plagiaries in King's academic papers affected every aspect of our work by raising new questions about the biographical and historical significance of many of the documents we had selected for inclusion.
http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/kingweb/additional_resources/articles/palimp.htmEven Red wikipedia agrees:
During the late 1980s, as the papers were being organized and catalogued, the staff of the project discovered that King's doctoral dissertation at Boston University, titled A Comparison of the Conception of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman, included large sections from a dissertation written by another student (Jack Boozer) three years earlier at Boston University.[1][2]
As Clayborne Carson, director of the King Papers Project at Stanford University, has written, "instances of textual appropriation can be seen in his earliest extant writings as well as his dissertation. The pattern is also noticeable in his speeches and sermons throughout his career."[3]
Boston University, where King got his Ph.D. in systematic theology, conducted an investigation that found he plagiarized major portions of his doctoral thesis from various other authors who wrote about the topic.[4][5]
According to civil rights historian Ralph E. Luker, who worked on the King Papers Project directing the research on King's early life, King's paper The Chief Characteristics and Doctrines of Mahayana Buddhism[6] was taken almost entirely from secondary sources.[7] He writes:
Moreover, the farther King went in his academic career, the more deeply ingrained the patterns of borrowing language without clear attribution became. Thus, the plagiarism in his dissertation seemed to be, by then, the product of his long-established practice.[7]
The incident was first reported in the December 3, 1989 edition of the Sunday Telegraph by Frank Johnson, titled "Martin Luther King — Was He a Plagiarist?" The incident was then reported in U.S. in the November 9, 1990 edition of the Wall Street Journal, under the title of "To Their Dismay, King Scholars Find a Troubling Pattern."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr._authorship_issuesThe other thing that I think was going on, particularly in King's later academic career, was that he was being patronized by his liberal, white professors. That clearly was not the case when his undergraduate teachers at Morehouse evaluated his work. But when he went to predominately white institutions in the North, King received extra-ordinarily high grades for academic work which was not only often heavily plagiarized, but was otherwise quite unexceptional. There's probably no way to prove that King was being patronized, but I think that, in the context of the time, the temptation to over-reward a charming young African American student who told his liberal white professors in the North almost exactly what he knew they already deeply believed about a subject was simply overwhelming.
http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/9172.html
