Alabama as Egypt : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the religion of slaves / Keith D. Miller -- The American dilemma in King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" / E. Culpepper Clark -- Reconstruction of the rhetorical situation in "Letter from Birmingham Jail" / Judith D. Hoover -- Covenanted rights : the metaphoric matrix of "I have a dream" / Martha Solomon -- Universalizing "equality" : the public legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. / John Louis Lucaites, Celeste Michelle Condit -- "I have a dream" : the performance of theology fused with the power of orality / John H. Patton -- When "Silence is betrayal" : an ethical criticism of the revolution of values in the speech at Riverside Church / Frederick J. Antczak -- The last mountaintop of Martin Luther King, Jr. / Michael Osborn -- The call from the mountaintop : call-response and the oratory of Martin Luther King, Jr. / Robert D. Harrison, Linda K. Harrison.