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.