MLK plagiarized over half his PhD thesis and he never took ANY legal step to change the first part of his name to “Martin Luther”.
His name was —was ALWAYS— MIKE King.
Charismatic? Yes. Right about rights? Yes.
REAL PhD..?
Eh...NO, Mike didn’t have one.
. . . Some of the time. By the mid-1960s, he had "outed" himself as a color-obsessed socialist who thought black folks should get preferences over whites in hiring.
He also started giving speeches that were openly anti-American and pro-Soviet. In his "My country is the foremost purveyor of violence in the world today" speech in 1967, where he came out against the Vietnam War, he at the same time praised all the "revolutionary" wars in South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia that were openly organized and supported by the Soviet Union.
By the end--and possibly from the beginning--he was just another America-hating hack, following orders from his white Lefty financiers. (What should we expect from a plagiarist?)