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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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The Mobile Workshop: The Tsetse Fly and African Knowledge Production, 2018
Book
2010s

The Mobile Workshop: The Tsetse Fly and African Knowledge Production, 2018

Faculty
A book by MIT professor Clapperton Mavhunga examining how African hunters and knowledge producers in Zimbabwe shaped colonial science and wildlife management.
Other Researchers
Gloria Green Hooks
Oral History
1990s

Transcript: Interview with Gloria Green, 1997

Multiple
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.
MIT Black History Project
Article
2010s

Race in Digital Space: Conceptualizing the Media Project, 2014

Visiting
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.
Other Researchers
Thesis
1990s

Developing a paradigm for visualizing architecture using computational methods : an analysis of the Havana Project by Lebbeus Woods, 1996

Student
A 1996 MIT thesis developing computational visualization methods for architectural design, using Lebbeus Woods's Havana Project as a case study.
Other Researchers
Thesis
2000s

A Reliable Low Bandwidth Email-based Communication Protocol, 2001

Student
A 2001 MIT thesis proposing an email-based communication protocol for low-bandwidth and intermittent network conditions, with applications for developing regions.
Other Researchers
A Decisive Decade: An Insider’s View of the Chicago Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s, 2013
Book
2010s

A Decisive Decade: An Insider’s View of the Chicago Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s, 2013

Faculty
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.
Other Researchers
Adam Clayton Powell IV
Thesis
1990s

Transport phenomena in electron beam melting and evaporation, 1997

Student
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.
Other Researchers
Yaw Yeboah in 1975
Oral History
1990s

Transcript: Interview with Yaw D. Yeboah, 1996

Alum
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.
MIT Black History Project
Article
1980s

Dismissed prof sparks controversy, 1989

Faculty
A 1989 article on the controversial dismissal of MIT faculty member Marilyn Richardson, documenting tensions around race and academic freedom at the Institute.
Other Researchers
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The study of a multiperipheral model with continued cross channel unitarity, 1973
Thesis
2017
Other Researchers
1970s
Other Researchers
1970s
Thesis
A 1973 MIT thesis by Shirley Ann Jackson '68, the first Black woman to earn a PhD from MIT, on particle physics and the multiperipheral model.
Student
Tunneling density of states behavior in superconducting niobium-titanium, 1968
Thesis
2017
Other Researchers
1960s
Other Researchers
1960s
Thesis
A 1968 MIT undergraduate thesis by Shirley Ann Jackson on superconducting tunneling junctions, the first of her two MIT degrees and the beginning of a historic scientific career.
Student
Coping with poverty and prejudice: how rural blacks adapt environmentally to the constraints of society, 1978
Thesis
2017
Other Researchers
1970s
Other Researchers
1970s
Thesis
A 1978 MIT thesis examining how poverty and racial prejudice shape the physical environments, homes, and communities of rural Black Americans in the South.
Student
The influence of meaningful citizen participation on the urban renewal process and the renewal of the inner-city's black community: a case study, 1969
Thesis
2017
Other Researchers
1960s
Other Researchers
1960s
Thesis
A 1969 MIT thesis by Reginald Griffith '55 examining how meaningful community participation can transform urban renewal outcomes in inner-city Black neighborhoods.
Student
Energy absorption and vibrational heating in molecules following intense laser excitation, 1976
Thesis
2017
Other Researchers
1970s
Other Researchers
1970s
Thesis
A 1975 MIT doctoral thesis examining energy absorption and vibrational heating in molecules following intense laser excitation.
Student
Class Struggle: Poor, Black and Smart, An Inner-City Teen Tries to Survive M.I.T., 1994
Article
2017
Other Researchers
1990s
Other Researchers
1990s
Article
A 1994 Wall Street Journal feature following Cedric Jennings, a Black teenager from inner-city Washington D.C., as he navigates the pressures of MIT's first year.
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Symmetry Principles in Selected Problems of String Theory, 1973
Thesis
2017
Other Researchers
1970s
Other Researchers
1970s
Thesis
A 1973 MIT doctoral thesis by S. James Gates Jr., the first thesis ever devoted to supersymmetry in physics, marking a landmark in theoretical particle physics.
Student
Ebony Affair: Twenty Years of Ebony, 1995
Article
2017
Other Researchers
1990s
Other Researchers
1990s
Article
Program booklet for the 1995 Ebony Affair, MIT's 20th annual celebration organized by the Black Students' Union showcasing Black student achievement and community.
Student
Melissa Nobles: All About the Count, 2007
Article
2017
Other Researchers
2000s
Other Researchers
2000s
Article
A 2007 MIT News profile of political science professor Melissa Nobles, whose research on racial classification and census politics shaped policy debates internationally.
Faculty
Mens et Mania: The MIT Nobody Knows, 2011
Book
2017
Other Researchers
2010s
Other Researchers
2010s
Book
A behind-the-scenes memoir by MIT linguistics professor Jay Keyser, offering a candid and witty portrait of life at the Institute away from its public-facing reputation.
Administrator
The Territory Between Us: A Report on "Black Women in the Academy..." 1994
Article
2017
Other Researchers
1990s
Other Researchers
1990s
Article
An article by scholar Saidiya Hartman reporting on the landmark 1994 'Black Women in the Academy' conference held at MIT, attended by over 2,000 scholars and activists.
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Black Firms to Share MIT Life Insurance Business, 1976
Article
2017
Other Researchers
1970s
Other Researchers
1970s
Article
A 1976 MIT report documenting the Institute's decision to share life insurance business with two major Black-owned insurance companies as part of its diversity commitments.
Administrator
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