“I have a copyright”: The Privatization of Martin Luther King’s Dream

Daniel T. Fleming lectures US history at Macquarie University, Australia. This article would have been impossible to write without the support of Michael L. Ondaatje, Philip Dwyer, Tim Minchin, Glenn Eskew, Clare Corbould, Sarah Gregson, Alex Cameron-Smith, AnnaMaria Harland, Kymme Laetsch, Michael Kilmister, Penelope Dunstan, Denise Whitehouse, Wendy Fleming, and Cadence Brown. The author is indebted to them for their invaluable encouragement and close reading of the essay and acknowledges V. P. Franklin and the anonymous readers for JAAH for their feedback on earlier drafts. Financial assistance from the University of Newcastle, Australia, and the Australian Government Post-Graduate Award Scheme made research for this article possible.