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Publications

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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1970s

Black entrepreneurship in the US: An historical appraisal, contemporary problems and future prospects (a study in demand for entrepreneurship), 1971

Student
A 1971 MIT dissertation by Robert Bofah examining the historical development of Black entrepreneurship in the United States and the structural barriers to its growth.
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The Negro and MIT
Article
1960s

The Negro and MIT, 1968

Student
An essay by MIT student Robert Fleming '71 published in 1968, examining the role and presence of Black students and faculty at the Institute during a pivotal moment in civil rights history.
Other Researchers
Victor C. Smith
Thesis
1930s

A study of homogenous combustion in gases, 1930

Student
The 1930 ScD thesis of Victor Claude Smith, one of the earliest Black doctoral graduates in chemical engineering in the United States, on combustion chemistry at MIT.
Other Researchers
Islandborn, 2018
Book
2010s

Islandborn, 2018

Faculty
A picture book by Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Diaz, inspired by a child's longing for her Dominican homeland, celebrating culture, memory, and belonging.
Other Researchers
Thesis
1970s

Coping with Poverty and Prejudice: How Rural Blacks Adapt Environmentally to the Constraints of Society, 1978 [duplicate]

Student
A 1978 MIT thesis (alternate record) examining how poverty and racial prejudice shape the physical environments of rural Black Americans in the South.
Other Researchers
James Edward Young, 1946
Thesis
1950s

Propagation of sound in attenuating ducts containing absorptive strips, 1953

Student
A 1953 MIT doctoral thesis by James E. Young, who would become the Department of Physics' first Black tenured faculty member, on sound propagation in ducts with absorptive strips.
Other Researchers
Black Panther: Jungle Action (1973)
Other
1970s

Black Panther: Panther's Rage (1973)

Multiple
The 1973 Marvel comic story arc introducing Erik Killmonger, whose fictional backstory as an MIT-educated engineer shaped one of Black Panther's most enduring villains.
Other Researchers
Technology Review MIT News cover Jan/Feb 2018
Article
2010s

The Remarkable Career of Shirley Ann Jackson, 2017

Multiple
A Technology Review profile of Shirley Ann Jackson '68 PhD '73 — the first Black woman to earn a PhD from MIT — tracing her career in physics, policy, and university leadership.
Other Researchers
The present state of Hayti (Saint Domingo), 1971
Book
1970s

The present state of Hayti (Saint Domingo), 1828 [1971]

Faculty
A book offering a rare 19th-century firsthand account of Haitian agriculture, commerce, laws, and society, reissued in 1971 with context connecting it to MIT's history.
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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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