About the vMLK Project

About the vMLK Project

The Virtual Martin Luther King (vMLK) Project enables visitors to the North Carolina State University Hunt Library to participate in self-guided tours as well as instructor-guided and/or public exhibitions of the six components of the vMLK project. Additionally, other libraries and museums are invited to bring the vMLK project to their institutions for various types of exhibitions. Finally, scholars, students, and members of the public are invited to access features of all six components of the project through the project website.

Cite this page as: vMLK Project Team. Virtual Martin Luther King, Jr. Project. 2019. Retrieved from https://vmlk.chass.ncsu.edu/

About the Virtual MLK Project

The historical, individual and collective components of the vMLK project work towards:
a) Documenting and recovery of the history and everyday experience of African American/Black life
b) Innovating the use of digital tools to provide audiences with historical and cultural knowledge
c) Providing audiences with sound-centered experiences of civic and political engagement and transformation
d) Providing pedagogical materials for teachers and students in the areas of civil rights history, social studies, public address and visual/digital rhetoric