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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.
William Barton Rogers, ca. 1869

William B. Rogers, ca. 1869

William Walton in Nigeria, ca. 1966

William Walton in Nigeria, ca. 1966

Jerrold Reinach Zacharias, Vance E. Gray and Jacob L. Reddix, 1964

MIT Conference on Negro College Summer Institutes, 1964

Ezekiel Mphahlele, ca. 1961

Ezekiel Mphahlele, ca. 1961

Ronald T. McLaughlin

Ronald T. McLaughlin

Willard Johnson, 1964

Willard R. Johnson, 1964

Seymour Papert and The Turtle, ca. 1968

Seymour Papert and The Turtle, ca. 1968

BSU IM Team

BSU IM Basketball Team, 1968

Robert Traynham Coles, late 1960s

Robert T. Coles, late 1960s

Ronald McLaughlin, Arthur T. Ippen, and others, 1964

Ronald McLaughlin, Arthur T. Ippen, and others, 1964

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