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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.

Chiamaka Agbasi-Porter: MIT Mentor Inspires Underrepresented Students To Get Involved In STEM (2022)

Building the Elephant in the Room (2015)

Bridge Leader Interview: Leon Trilling (2002)

Interview: Donald Brown (2003)

MIT Infinite History Project: Kenneth E. Reeves (2015)

"Marked and Scarred" by Kelvin Frazier, 2015

Margaret A. Burnham: "The Dream and the Reality" - 18th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration (1992)

Michel DeGraff: MIT-Haiti Initiative (2018)

#BlackInTheIvory​: Academia's Role in Institutional Racism (2020)

Education in the United States: Evelyn Higginbotham, Sylvester Gates, and Paula T. Hammond (2011)

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