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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.
Willie Baldwin, Robert Boone, and Michael Dixon, 1980s

Willie Baldwin, Robert Boone, and Michael Dixon, 1980s

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

MIT Conference on Negro College Summer Institutes, 1964

Lyman J. Alexander, 1973

Lyman J. Alexander, 1973

Carolyn Beatrice Parker

Carolyn Beatrice Parker, ca. 1949

Oprah Winfrey 2020 Vision Tour: Prof. Alan Lightman (2020)

Howard J. Foster receives E. Harris Harbison Award, 1970

Howard J. Foster receives E. Harris Harbison Award, 1970

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