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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.
AKA Lambda Upsilon Sorors, 2007

AKA Lambda Upsilon Sorors, 2007

Booker Washington Agricultural & Industrial Institute (BWI), est. 1929

NASA Shuttle Flight Director Kwatsi Alibaruho, 2009

Audio: NPR Interview with Kwatsi Alibaruho, First Black NASA Flight Director, 2005

Mission Specialist Robert L. Satcher, Jr., 2009

Mission Specialist Robert L. Satcher, Jr., 2009

Oral History of Joe Thompson (2018)

Building the Elephant in the Room (2015)

Gladys Facey (niece of George F. Bowles '27), 2016

Boston Memoir Project: Gladys Facey remembers George F. Bowles '27, 2016

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

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

AKA Lambda Upsilon Sorors, 2017

AKA Lambda Upsilon Sorors, 2017

AKA Lambda Upsilon Sorors, 2010

AKA Lambda Upsilon Sorors, 2010

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