Multimedia
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
Documentary overview 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”
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 pages 1 and 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