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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.

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

Prof. Larry Sass, 2009

Prof. Larry Sass, 2009

Uppercut comic by Steve Sullivan

Comic strip featuring Prof. Larry Sass, 2004

Catalog card: Gus Solomons and Harold Edgerton, 1960

Catalog card: Gus Solomons and Harold Edgerton, 1960

Prof. Tunney Lee and students, 1975

Prof. Tunney Lee and students, 1975

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

Phil Freelon, ca. 1977

Phil Freelon, ca. 1977

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

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