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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.
MLK Day silent march, 2016

MLK Celebration silent march, 2016

MIT PhDs, 2018

MIT PhDs, 2018

Student leaders, 2015

Student leaders, 2015

Black Graduate Celebration: Wakanda salute, 2018

Black Graduate Celebration: Wakanda salute, 2018

BSU, BGSA and BBSA die-in, 2019

Black student groups hold die-in protest, 2019

Circle of students during die-in, 2019

Circle of students during die-in protest, 2019

Lobby 7 Protest, 2019

Lobby 7 Protest, 2019

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  • Chemistry (1)
  • Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (1)
  • Mechanical Engineering (1)
  • Media Arts and Sciences (1)
  • Nuclear Science and Engineering (1)

Life@MIT

  • African Students' Association (ASA) (6)
  • Alpha Phi Alpha (1)
  • Black Alumni/ae of MIT (BAMIT) (16)
  • Black Business Students Association (BBSA) (3)
  • (-) Black Graduate Student Association (BGSA) (7)
  • Black Students' Union (BSU) (24)
  • Black Women's Alliance (BWA) (9)
  • Cardinal & Gray Society (2)
  • Juniper (1)
  • McCormick Hall (1)
  • MIT-Sponsored (1)
  • MIT Athletics (3)
  • MIT Gospel Choir (3)
  • My Sister's Keeper (1)
  • National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) (4)
  • Omega Psi Phi (1)
  • Women in Aerospace Engineering (WAE) (2)

Career

  • Arts & Humanities (2)
  • Community (7)
  • Engineering (1)
  • Science (1)

Object

  • Document (1)
  • (-) Image (7)
  • Video (3)

Collection

  • Activism (5)
  • Administrators (1)
  • (-) Africa(n) (1)
  • Afrofuturism (1)
  • (-) Charles Vest (1)
  • (-) Commencement (1)
  • Faculty (1)
  • Honors (2)
  • Kente (2)
  • (-) Martin Luther King, Jr. (1)
  • Mentorship (1)
  • (-) Rising Voices 1995-Present (7)
  • Students (7)
  • Women (1)

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The mission of the MIT Black History Project is to research, identify, and produce scholarly curatorial content on the Black experience at MIT since the Institute opened its doors in 1865.

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