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Virtual Martin Luther King, Jr. Project
  • Experience
    • Overview
    • Collective Sound
    • Listening Experience
    • Historical Experience
    • Virtual Reality
    • Simulation
    • Your Creative Protest
  • Events
    • Overview
    • Exhibitions
    • Public Lectures and Presentations
    • Public Speaking Exhibitions
  • Teaching and Learning
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    • Public Speaking
    • Orientation
    • vMLK EDSITEment Units
    • Grades 8-12
    • Teaching and Learning Experiences
  • Scholarship
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    • Publications
    • Conference and Symposia Presentations
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  • About
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  • 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
  • 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

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.

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Supported by

National Endowment for the Humanities NC Humanities Council NC State College of Humanities and Social Sciences NC State Libraries American Council of Learned societies NC State College of Design

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.

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