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The MIT Black History Project is committed to collecting, developing, curating, and preserving content on the Black experience at MIT dating back to 1865. We are also currently working with others to bring this knowledge to bear on the challenges we all face within the greater scope of the Institute’s mission and accomplishments.

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Vital Difference: The Role of Race in Building Community (2004)
Report
2000s

Vital Difference: The Role of Race in Building Community (2004)

Faculty
A report by MIT's Center for Reflective Community Practice arguing that race, far from being divisive, can play a central role in building democratic participation in underserved communities.
Other Researchers
Article
2000s

Slavery and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital, 2005

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An article by MIT economist Daron Acemoglu measuring how much economic harm was transmitted across generations from slavery, quantifying the long-run costs of historical oppression.
Other Researchers
Studying While Black: Trust, Opportunity, and Disrespect, 2014
Article
2010s

Studying While Black: Trust, Opportunity, and Disrespect, 2014

Faculty
An article examining how race shapes trust and opportunity in educational settings, and what institutions can do to close achievement gaps and reduce disrespect toward Black students.
Other Researchers
Journal of Modern African Studies, 1963
Article
1960s

The M.I.T. Fellows in Africa Program, 1963

Faculty
An article documenting the MIT Fellows in Africa Program, conceived in 1960 to send MIT-trained professionals to support newly independent African nations.
Other Researchers
Phyllis Wallace
Article
2020s

MIT Sloan’s first tenured female professor tackled workplace discrimination, 2021

Faculty
A profile of MIT Sloan professor Phyllis Wallace, the first tenured Black woman at MIT Sloan, who led landmark research on workplace discrimination and the AT&T case.
Other Researchers
Linda Datcher Loury
Article
2010s

Linda Datcher Loury: Pioneer in social economics, 2011

Alum
A 2011 Boston Globe obituary for MIT economist Linda Datcher Loury PhD '78, a pioneer in social economics whose research on race, family, and inequality shaped the field.
Other Researchers
INTERPHASE 45th Anniversary booklet cover
Other
2010s

INTERPHASE 45th Anniversary- Honoring the Legacy: Past, Present, and Future (2014)

Administrator
Program booklet for the 45th anniversary celebration of MIT's Interphase program, honoring its legacy of preparing underrepresented students for STEM success at MIT.
Other Researchers
Technology and the Dream
Book
2000s

Technology and the Dream, 2001

Administrator
A landmark MIT Press book collecting over 75 oral history interviews with Black students, faculty, and staff reflecting on six decades of the Black experience at the Institute.
MIT Black History Project
Journey of The Lost Souls (JoTLS), 2013
Book
2010s

Journey of The Lost Souls (JoTLS), 2013

Alum
A 2013 collection of rap poems and reflections by MIT-connected author Robert Dunbar exploring themes of identity, struggle, and redemption.
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An Outline of the Structure of Shilha, 1958
Book
2017
Other Researchers
1950s
Other Researchers
1950s
Book
A 1958 scholarly work on the structure of Shilha, a Berber language spoken in southwest Morocco, authored by MIT linguist Joseph Applegate.
Faculty
The Lost Revolution: Capitalism, democracy and Black citizenship in early 20th-century America's biggest race conflicts, 2007
Thesis
2018
Other Researchers
2000s
Other Researchers
2000s
Thesis
A 2007 MIT thesis by Kali-Ahset Amen examining how racial conflict and inequality shaped Black citizenship and political agency in early 20th-century America.
Student
THE TECH: Perspectives on Diversity, 2004
Article
2018
Other Researchers
2000s
Other Researchers
2000s
Article
A student newspaper feature produced as part of MIT's Martin Luther King Jr. Design Seminar, offering diverse personal perspectives on race and diversity at the Institute in 2004.
Student
The Mobile Workshop: The Tsetse Fly and African Knowledge Production, 2018
Book
2018
Other Researchers
2010s
Other Researchers
2010s
Book
A book by MIT professor Clapperton Mavhunga examining how African hunters and knowledge producers in Zimbabwe shaped colonial science and wildlife management.
Faculty
Transcript: Interview with Gloria Green, 1997
Oral History
2017
MIT Black History Project
1990s
MIT Black History Project
1990s
Oral History
An oral history interview with Gloria Green Hooks, the second Black woman to attend MIT (45 years after Marie C. Turner), recounting her student experience at the Institute.
Multiple
Race in Digital Space: Conceptualizing the Media Project, 2014
Article
2018
Other Researchers
2010s
Other Researchers
2010s
Article
An article examining the 2014 Race in Digital Space exhibition at MIT's List Visual Arts Center, which explored how race shapes digital media, algorithms, and online identity.
Visiting
Developing a paradigm for visualizing architecture using computational methods : an analysis of the Havana Project by Lebbeus Woods, 1996
Thesis
2017
Other Researchers
1990s
Other Researchers
1990s
Thesis
A 1996 MIT thesis developing computational visualization methods for architectural design, using Lebbeus Woods's Havana Project as a case study.
Student
A Reliable Low Bandwidth Email-based Communication Protocol, 2001
Thesis
2018
Other Researchers
2000s
Other Researchers
2000s
Thesis
A 2001 MIT thesis proposing an email-based communication protocol for low-bandwidth and intermittent network conditions, with applications for developing regions.
Student
A Decisive Decade: An Insider’s View of the Chicago Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s, 2013
Book
2018
Other Researchers
2010s
Other Researchers
2010s
Book
MIT professor Robert McKersie's personal account of the Chicago civil rights movement during the 1960s, drawn from his direct involvement in the era's pivotal moments.
Faculty
Transport phenomena in electron beam melting and evaporation, 1997
Thesis
2018
Other Researchers
1990s
Other Researchers
1990s
Thesis
A 1997 MIT doctoral thesis by Adam Clayton Powell IV on heat transfer and fluid dynamics in electron beam melting, with connections to the Powell family's legacy at the Institute.
Student
Transcript: Interview with Yaw D. Yeboah, 1996
Oral History
2017
MIT Black History Project
1990s
MIT Black History Project
1990s
Oral History
An oral history interview with Yaw D. Yeboah '75, a Ghanaian MIT alumnus who earned four degrees in four years, conducted for the Technology and the Dream project.
Alum
Dismissed prof sparks controversy, 1989
Article
2018
Other Researchers
1980s
Other Researchers
1980s
Article
A 1989 article on the controversial dismissal of MIT faculty member Marilyn Richardson, documenting tensions around race and academic freedom at the Institute.
Faculty
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