Origins of the dream: Hughes's poetry and King's rhetoric

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.