While the Institute has not always demonstrated a strong commitment to faculty diversity, ongoing efforts strive to change the face of teaching at MIT.

MIT's role in helping to create NASA includes stories of a black experience that add a unique dimension to space exploration and research.

MIT's first black graduate, nation's first accredited African-American architect, designer of Tuskegee Institute campus buildings prior to 1932, great-grandfather of Valerie Jarrett, and more...

Galvanized by the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, black student groups begin to form on predominately white college campuses across the country, including MIT.

At the outset of WWII, MIT contributed to the training of African-American military pilots popularly known as the Tuskegee Airmen.

Plans for a “polytechnic” institute in Boston were delayed by a dramatic moment in national history that happened to bring together MIT's founding and the issue of race: The Civil War.