03132nam 2200625 450 991080764530332120230807212337.00-8130-5071-50-8130-5518-0(CKB)3710000000329203(EBL)1912986(SSID)ssj0001404769(PQKBManifestationID)11760217(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001404769(PQKBWorkID)11386614(PQKB)11733342(StDuBDS)EDZ0001111193(MiAaPQ)EBC1912986(OCoLC)899264242(MdBmJHUP)muse42271(Au-PeEL)EBL1912986(CaPaEBR)ebr11003367(CaONFJC)MIL688739(EXLCZ)99371000000032920320150122h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrOrigins of the dream Hughes's poetry and King's rhetoric /W. Jason MillerGainesville, Florida :University Press of Florida,2015.©20151 online resource (261 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-322-57457-X 0-8130-6044-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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. 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 reputatiAmerican poetryAfrican American authorsAfrican AmericansHistoryCivil rights movementsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAmerican poetryAfrican American authors.African AmericansHistory.Civil rights movementsHistory818/.5209Miller W. Jason1154223MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807645303321Origins of the dream4019701UNINA