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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.
Jerrold Reinach Zacharias, Vance E. Gray and Jacob L. Reddix, 1964

MIT Conference on Negro College Summer Institutes, 1964

Willard Johnson, 1964

Willard R. Johnson, 1964

BSU student panel, ca. 1969

Student panel, ca. 1969

Protesting the building of the Inner Belt at Pres. Howard W. Johnson's inauguration, 1966

Protesting the building of the Inner Belt at Pres. Howard W. Johnson's inauguration, 1966

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

Kortney Adams SM '00 as Lady in Purple, 1999

Kortney Adams as Lady in Purple, 1999

Black Women in the Academy conference panel, 1994

Black Women in the Academy conference panel, 1994

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