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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.
Tiera Guinn, Yvonne Cagle, and Alyssa Napier, 2015

Women in Space, 2015

Melissa Nobles et al. discuss the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Clinic (2018)

Silvio Napoleon Vitale instructs two student fencers, ca. 1971

Pamela Jackson, ca. 1971

Ezekiel Mphahlele, ca. 1961

Ezekiel Mphahlele, ca. 1961

Ellen Swallow Richards with MIT Chemistry staff, 1900

Ellen Swallow Richards and staff, 1900

Willard Johnson, 1964

Willard R. Johnson, 1964

Willard Johnson on climbing the faculty ranks at MIT (2015)

BAMIT Faculty Reception

BAMIT Faculty Reception, 2015

Melissa Nobles

Melissa Nobles, Political Science

The Dixon Brothers

The Dixon Brothers, 1898

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