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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.
African Physical Society organizing meeting, 2007

African Physical Society organizing meeting, 2007

Inaugural council meeting of the African Physical Society, 2010

Inaugural council meeting of the African Physical Society, 2010

Baba Jubal Harris

Baba Jubal Harris discusses Willie Ray 'Karimi' Mackey, ca. 2016

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)

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