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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
    • Overview
    • Public Speaking
    • Orientation
    • vMLK EDSITEment Units
    • Grades 8-12
    • Teaching and Learning Experiences
  • Scholarship
    • Overview
    • Public Address and Digital Humanities
    • Humanities Content
    • Publications
    • Conference and Symposia Presentations
    • Grants
  • About
    • Overview
    • Phases of the Project
    • Meet the Project Team
    • Project Contributions
    • Awards and Recognition
    • In the Media
    • Contact Us
  • Search

  • 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

  • 55th anniversary of the”Fill Up the Jails” speech
  • About the vMLK Project
    • Contact us
    • In the Media
    • Meet the Project Team
    • News
    • Overview of the vMLK Project
    • Phases of the Project
      • Phase 1 – Development and Recreation of the Speech
      • Phase 2 – Immersive Audio Experience
      • Phase 3 – Immersive Digital Experience
    • Research
  • About the vMLK Project
    • Awards and Recognition
    • Contact Us
    • In the Media
    • Meet the Project Team
    • News
    • Phases of the Project
      • Phase 1 (2013): Development and Recreation of the Speech
      • Phase 2 (2015): Immersive Audio Experience
      • Phase 3 (2016): Immersive Digital Experience
    • Project Contributions
  • Events
    • Exhibitions
    • Public Lectures and Presentations
    • Public Speaking Exhibitions
  • Experience
    • Collective Sound
    • Historical Experience
      • “A Creative Protest [“Fill Up the Jails”]”
      • Multimedia Archive
      • Rhetorical History of the Speech
      • Royal Ice Cream Sit-In Documentary
      • Timeline
        • 1957
        • 1960
        • 1967
        • 2008
        • 2013
        • 2014
        • 2015
        • 2016
        • 2017
      • vMLK Project Video
    • Listening Experience
      • “Fill Up the Jails” Speech Reenactment
      • Audience’s perspective (from the balcony)
      • Audience’s perspective (from the first row)
      • Audience’s Perspective (from the floor)
      • Audience’s perspective (from the podium)
      • Historical Perspective
    • Simulation
      • Simulation from the Podium
    • Virtual Reality
      • VR from the Balcony
      • VR from the Congregation
      • VR from the Podium
    • Your Creative Protest
  • 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
    • Orientation Slides
    • Orientation Slides Fall 2021
    • Orientation Slides for K-12
  • Pedagogy
    • Public Speaking
  • Public Address and Digital Humanities
  • Rhetoric for All
  • Rhetorical History of the “Fill Up the Jails” Speech
  • Scholarship
    • Conference and Symposia Presentations
    • Grants
    • Humanities Content
    • Public Address and Digital Humanities
    • Publications
  • Search the Virtual MLK Project
  • Teaching and Learning
    • Grades 8-12
      • Professional Development
    • Orientation
    • Public Speaking
      • Activity Five: Audience Activity
      • Activity Four: Language
      • Activity One: Structure and Argument
      • Activity Three: Listening to the speech
      • Activity Two: Identifying Modes of Persuasion
      • Assignment One: Multi-textual Presentation
      • Assignment Two: Multi-textual Presentation Speech Analysis
    • Teaching and Learning Experiences
    • vMLK EDSITEment Units
  • 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.

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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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