Skip to main content

Utility Menu

  • Contact
  • Giving
  • Search
  • Subscribe

MIT Black History

Main menu

  • Archive
  • Stories
  • Publications
  • About
  • Contact
  • Giving
  • Search
  • MIT

Archive

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.
Ben Moultrie and W. Ahmad Salih

Ben Moultrie and W. Ahmad Salih, 1971

Memo to Paul Gray, 1975

Memorandum: An Excellent Affirmative Action Plan Versus Failure to Meet Goals Relative to Black Faculty and Staff, 1975

Paul Gray and students at a Task Force meeting, 1971

Paul Gray and students at a Task Force meeting, 1971

MIT meeting with Black-owned firms

MIT negotiates with black-owned firms, 1976

Filter By:

Timeline

  • (-) 1970s (4)
  • 1980s (5)
  • 1990s (1)
  • 2000s (1)
  • 2010s (1)
  • 2020s (1)

MIT School

  • School of Engineering (1)
  • Sloan School of Management (1)

MIT Department

  • (-) Administration (4)
  • Aeronautics and Astronautics (1)
  • Management (1)
  • Urban Studies and Planning (1)

Life@MIT

  • Black Students' Union (BSU) (2)

Career

  • Business & Finance (1)
  • Community (2)
  • Education (3)

Object

  • Document (1)
  • Image (3)

Collection

  • Administrators (16)
  • Bridge Leaders (2)
  • Clarence G. Wiliams (3)
  • Conferences (1)
  • Critical Mass 1955-1968 (2)
  • Data (1)
  • Ellen Swallow Richards (3)
  • Faculty (5)
  • Family (2)
  • Greek Life (2)
  • HBCUs (1)
  • Honors (1)
  • Integration and Differentiation 1969-1994 (21)
  • Jerome Wiesner (2)
  • Lincoln Lab (1)
  • Magazine features (2)
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. (2)
  • Mentorship (5)
  • MIT Presidents (1)
  • MIT Rad Lab (1)
  • (-) Paul E. Gray (4)
  • Pop Culture (2)
  • Recruitment (13)
  • Staff (2)
  • STEM Education (3)
  • Students (17)
  • W. Ahmad Salih (1)
  • Women (11)

Have a piece of MIT black history to share?

The MIT Black History Project’s mission is to research, identify, and produce scholarly curatorial content on the MIT Black experience. If you have an important item you believe the project should consider for its collection, please start by contacting us on this website.
Tell us about your piece of MIT Black history

Follow Us

Twitter YouTube Sound Cloud Blogger

Connect with us

Contact

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.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139

BlackHistory