Harlan Gradin

Listening Experience
Historical Perspective
Audience’s perspective (from the podium)
Audience’s perspective (from the first row)
Audience’s Perspective (from the floor)
Audience’s perspective (from the balcony)
“Fill Up the Jails” Speech Reenactment

Timeline
1957 – Royal Ice Cream Sit-In
1960 – Sit-Ins and MLK’s Speech
1967 – White Rock Torn Down
2008 – Durham Sit-in Marker
2013 – Research and Writing
2014 – Recreation of the Speech
2015 – Audio-visual Exhibitions
2016 – Multifaceted Experiences
2017 – Public Exhibits

Pages

55^th anniversary of the”Fill Up the Jails” speech
About the vMLK Project
About the vMLK Project
Events
Experience
Experiencing King at the Hunt
Experiencing vMLK at the Smithsonian
History of the Speech
- Multimedia
- Timeline of the Speech
Homepage
Listen
- Historical Perspective
- Speaker’s perspective (from the podium)
Orientation – old
Pedagogy
- Public Speaking
Public Address and Digital Humanities
Rhetoric for All
Rhetorical History of the “Fill Up the Jails” Speech
Scholarship
Search the Virtual MLK Project
Teaching and Learning
test
Videos sample
Virtual MLK Experience Project Guide

Public Speaking Materials
Assignment One: Multi-textual Presentation
Assignment Two: Multi-textual Presentation Speech Analysis
Activity One: Structure and Argument
Activity Two: Identifying Modes of Persuasion
Activity Three: Listening to the speech
Activity Four: Language
Activity Five: Audience Activity
Public Speaking Exhibitions

Listen to the speech

Historical perspective of the speech
Speaker’s perspective from the podium
Audience’s perspective from the floor
Audience’s perspective from the balcony
Speech reenactment at White Rock Baptist Church

Orientation – old
Orientation Slides
vMLK EDSITEment Units

Featured

NC State Libraries' Focus magazine wrote an article on the historical context and future directions of the vMLK Project for their Fall/Winter 2021-22 edition.

View vMLK Events

Supported by

Pedagogy

The vMLK project enables a deeper consideration and understanding of the very nature of public address as experience. We are pleased to offer a set of assignments and curricular suggestions for how to incorporate the vMLK Project into classroom instruction.

View Curricula Resources

Virtual Martin Luther King, Jr. Project

NC State University
Accessibility
Privacy
University Policies
Log in