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DQ0A0150

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

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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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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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Virtual Martin Luther King, Jr. Project

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