Dr. Vicki Gallgher, Professor of Communication Studies at North Carolina State University. Is the lead investigator of the award-winning Virtual Martin Luther King, Jr. project, a significant, long-term digital humanities project supported in part through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The project recreates Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech "A Creative Protest" sometimes referred to as the "Fill up the Jails Speech." It was delivered just days after the start of Greensboro sit-ins in February, 1960. Dr. King delivered the speech to support students protesting segregation in the Royal ice cream parlor in Durham, North Carolina. No recording of the speech exists. The vMLK project uses advanced digital and audio technology to enable an audience to re-experience the speech as if they were sitting in the church where the speech was delivered.