Documenting and preserving more than a century of Black achievement, perseverance, and intellectual life at the Institute.

Sponsored by the MIT Office of the Provost, the MIT Black History Project began in October 1995 under the vision of Founder and Director Clarence G. Williams, who set out to bring a humanistic perspective to one of the world's premier science, engineering, and research driven institutions. The Project's continuing objective is to place the Black experience at MIT in its full and appropriate context, researching and disseminating a varied set of materials and bringing this rich, historically significant legacy to a wider community, inside and outside MIT. It began with one historian's conviction that this story deserved to be told, and still does.