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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.

W.E.B. DuBois - Booker T. Washington

Esperanza Spalding: Ebony and Ivy (2016)

Marvel's New Ironman: Riri Williams (2017)

HONY: Keep to the Right

Humans of New York: Keep to the Right, 2014

POSTER: MIT & Slavery Course, 2017

POSTER: MIT & Slavery course, 2017

"Marked and Scarred" by Kelvin Frazier, 2015

MIT and the Legacy of Slavery (2018)

Charlotte Brathwaite, 2017

Charlotte Brathwaite, 2017

Ini Oguntola, 2017

Ini Oguntola, 2017

BET "Black Girls Rock!" Tech Award: Dr. Mareena Robinson Snowden (2018)

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