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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.
Eleanor Roosevelt visits Tuskegee, 1941

Eleanor Roosevelt and Charles Anderson, 1941

MLK Day March, 1995

MLK Day March, 1995

Coretta Scott King- MLK Celebration Keynote Procession (1994)

Noam Chomsky on Race, Gender and Class with Kathleen Cleaver (1997)

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