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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.
Tuskegee weather detachment, ca. 1944

Wallace P. Reed and the Tuskegee weather detachment, ca. 1944

Eleanor Roosevelt visits Tuskegee, 1941

Eleanor Roosevelt and Charles Anderson, 1941

Kids at time of Rotary Club Phil. Banquet, 1941

Kids at time of Rotary Club Phil. Banquet, 1941

Tiera Guinn, Yvonne Cagle, and Alyssa Napier, 2015

Women in Space, 2015

Baba Jubal Harris

Baba Jubal Harris discusses Willie Ray 'Karimi' Mackey, ca. 2016

Impostor Syndrome by Alyssa Napier, 2015

Comic strip: "Impostor Syndrome" by Alyssa Napier, 2015

C. Alfred “Chief” Anderson U.S. Postal Stamp, 2014

C. Alfred “Chief” Anderson U.S. Postal Stamp, 2014

Benjamin Ofori-Okai's Personal Story (2018)

Eyes on the Stars: Ron McNair (2013)

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