Technology and the Dream cassette tapes, 2022
These cassette tapes, exhibited at the new MIT Museum on Kendall Sqare, hold some of the more than 200 interviews conducted by Adjunct Professor Emeritus Clarence G. Williams in the 1990s for his book Technology and the Dream: Reflections on the Black Experience at MIT, 1941–1999 (MIT Press, 2001). It is the largest collection of interviews of Black STEM professionals in the world. Williams, who was also special assistant to the president and ombudsman, founded the MIT Black History Project, an ongoing research effort.
The MIT Collects gallery highlights the MIT Black History Project’s oral history interview collection, making audible the transformative voices and visions that have pushed MIT during the past half-century to be open to all. Experience audio interviews with students, faculty, and administrators from Clarence Williams' book on the Black experience at MIT.
MIT Museum, October 2022