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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.
Seminar with Philipp G. Frank, 1956

Seminar with Philipp G. Frank, 1956

Architecture students, 1953

Architecture students, 1953

Wonder Woman #50: Ellen Swallow Richards, 1950s

Wonder Woman #50: Ellen Swallow Richards, 1950s

Catalog card: Gus Solomons, Jr. and Judy Kerivan, 1959

Catalog card: Gus Solomons, Jr. and Judy Kerivan, 1959

Joseph Applegate with students, 1959

Joseph Applegate with students, 1959

Black Women in the Academy conference: Hammonds, Kilson, and Vest, 1994

Black Women in the Academy conference: Hammonds, Kilson, and Vest, 1994

Black Women in the Academy conference: Panel with Angela Davis, 1994

Black Women in the Academy conference: Panel with Angela Davis, 1994

Cast of "for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf ," 1992

Cast of "for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf ," 1992

Octavia Butler, 1986

TRANSCRIPT: "Devil Girl From Mars": Why I Write Science Fiction by Octavia Butler, 1998

Samuel Delany and Octavia Butler

TRANSCRIPT: Octavia Butler and Samuel Delany, 1998

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