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Martin Luther King was awarded 20 honorary degrees from various colleges and universities in the United States and several foreign countries. They include:

Doctor of Humane Letters from Morehouse College
Doctor of Laws from Howard University
Doctor of Divinity from Chicago Theological Seminary
Doctor of Laws from Morgan State University
Doctor of Humanities from Central State University
Doctor of Divinity from Boston University
Doctor of Laws from Lincoln University
Doctor of Laws from University of Bridgeport
Doctor of Civil Law from Bard College
Doctor of Letters from Keuka College
Doctor of Divinity from Wesleyan College
Doctor of Laws from Jewish Theological Seminary
Doctor of Laws from Yale University
Doctor of Divinity from Springfield College
Doctor of Laws from Hofstra University
Doctor of Humane Letters from Oberlin College
Doctor honoris causa in Social Science from Amsterdam Free University
Doctor of Divinity from St. Peter’s College
Doctor of Civil Law from University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Doctor of Laws from Grinnell College

Plagiarism


It has been suggested that Martin Luther King, Jr. authorship issues be merged into this article or section.


In the 1980s, questions were raised regarding the authorship of King's dissertation, other papers, and his speeches. Concerns about his doctoral dissertation at Boston University led to a formal inquiry by university officials, which concluded that approximately a third of it had been plagiarized from a paper written by an earlier graduate student,but it was decided not to revoke his degree, since the paper still "makes an intelligent contribution to scholarship."

While some have criticized King for his plagiarism, Keith Miller has argued that the practice falls within the tradition of "African-American folk preaching", and should not necessarily be labeled plagiarism. However, as Theodore Pappas points out in his book Plagiarism and the Culture War, King in fact took a class on scholarly standards and plagiarism at Boston University.