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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.

How Not to Make a Documentary (2012)

Valerie Jarrett- "Robert Robinson Taylor: Building on the Legacy of MIT's First Black Graduate" (2022)

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

B. Stephen Carpenter II- Double Taking and Troublemaking: Socially Engaged Practice as Intentionally Disruptive Art (2017)

Phil Freelon and David Adjaye: Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture (2016)

TEDxBermuda: "The House that Larry Printed" (2011)

David Adjaye discusses Eero Saarinen’s MIT Chapel (2016)

Danielle Wood: The Down-to-Earth Applications of Space (2021)

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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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