Multimedia Archive

What kind of rhetorical archive is needed to support the vMLK project? What kinds of multi-modal frames might suggest ways to experience the rhetorical history of the speech? To address these questions, this multimedia archive includes artifacts important to the locality of the speech, as well as artifacts that inform a narrative of how the speech served as a response to a particular rhetorical problem.

Audio

Immersive historical context, “Fill Up the Jails” speech reenactment, vMLK Project
Speaker’s perspective, “Fill Up the Jails” speech reenactment, vMLK Project
Audience’s perspective from the floor, “Fill Up the Jails” speech reenactment, vMLK Project
Audience’s perspective from the balcony, “Fill Up the Jails” speech reenactment, vMLK Project

Video

Introduction to Using the vMLK Project for Teaching and Learning
vMLK Online
Origins of the Virtual MLK Project
“Fill Up the Jails” speech reenactment, Jun. 8, 2014, White Rock Baptist Church
NCSU digital project to re-create MLK’s 1960 speech in Durham, WRAL 5 interview
“Counterhistories: Durham”, A project of the Southern Foodways Alliance
“Fill the Jails,” from “King: A Filmed Record”
“Nothing but Love in God’s Water,” A project of the Bull City Doc Squad about the history of White Rock Baptist Church

Photos

White Rock Baptist Church, circa 1955, Durham, NC (Courtesy of State Archives of NC)
Marvin Blanks performing the “Fill Up the Jails” speech, White Rock Baptist Church
White Rock Baptist Church, 2014, Durham, NC

Historic Documents

“A Creative Protest speech,” Feb. 16, 1960, Durham, NC
“Must be Willing to Fill Up the Jails, King Warns,” (see page 1 and page 6) Feb. 20, 1960, Carolina Times
“Revolt Without Violence – The Negroes’ New Strategy,” Mar. 21, 1960 U.S. News & World Report
” A Legacy of Creative Protest,” Sep. 7, 1962, The Massachusetts Review

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