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Origins of the dream : Hughes's poetry and King's rhetoric / W. Jason Miller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, W. Jason, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--African American authors.
- American poetry.
- African Americans--History.
- African Americans.
- Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967--Influence.
- Hughes, Langston.
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
- King, Martin Luther.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (261 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville, Florida : University Press of Florida, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Since Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, some scholars have privately suspected that King's "dream" was connected to Langston Hughes's poetry. Drawing on archival materials, including notes, correspondence, and marginalia, W. Jason Miller provides a completely original and compelling argument that Hughes's influence on King's rhetoric was, in fact, evident in more than just the one famous speech. King's staff had been wiretapped by J. Edgar Hoover and suffered accusations of communist influence, so quoting or naming the leader of the Harlem Renaissance-who had his own reputati
- Contents:
- Introduction: giving new validity to old forms
- "Mother to son": the rise, removal, and return of Hughes
- Black and red: accusations of subversiveness
- King and poetry: quotations, revisions, and unsolicited poems
- "Dream deferred": King's use of Hughes's most popular poem
- "Poem for a man": King's unusual request
- "Youth": Hughes's poem and King's chiasmus
- "I dream a world": rewriting Hughes's signature poem
- "I have a dream": King speaks in Rocky Mount
- "The Psalm of brotherhood": King at Detroit's march for jobs
- The march on Washington: veiling Hughes's poetry
- Conclusion: extending the dream.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8130-5071-5
- 0-8130-5518-0
- OCLC:
- 899264242
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