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 reputation as a communist-would only have intensified the
threats against the civil rights activist. Thus, the link was
purposefully veiled through careful allusions in King's orations.
In Origins of the Dream, Miller lifts that veil and shows how
Hughes's revolutionary poetry became a measurable inflection in
King's voice. He contends that by employing Hughes's metaphors in
his speeches, King negotiated a political climate that sought to
silence the poet's subversive voice. By separating Hughes's
identity from his poems, King helped the nation unconsciously
embrace the incendiary ideas behind his poetry.
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