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Main sources for the MIT Black History Project include the Institute Archives, the MIT Museum, campus publications, and members of the MIT community. Oral history is also a valuable evidentiary tool, supplementing and enriching the store of more traditional historical evidence. Additionally, the project draws material from relevant collections and publications at large.
Valerie Jarrett and L. Rafael Reif, 2022

Valerie Jarrett and L. Rafael Reif, 2022

Valerie Jarrett- "Robert Robinson Taylor: Building on the Legacy of MIT's First Black Graduate" (2022)

Wendell P. Terrell

Wendell P. Terrell, 1906

Robert Taylor with students at Tuskegee Institute, circa 1897

Robert Taylor with students at Tuskegee Institute, circa 1897

Booker Washington Agricultural & Industrial Institute (BWI), est. 1929

Robert R. Taylor Limited Edition Forever Stamp, 2015

Robert R. Taylor Limited Edition Forever Stamp, 2015

Robert R. Taylor in his later years

Robert R. Taylor, ca. late 1930s

Diane Hoskins (2013)

Tuskegee University - Robert R Taylor School of Architecture and Construction Science (2019)

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