A short demo of the Black Experience at MIT website.  This website is in its initial stages with an ambitious plan: to document and celebrate the experience of blacks at MIT since its founding in 1861. This website is a lens for all members of the MIT community to understand our shared history. The goal of the project is to uncover, record, preserve, and provide access to the history of the black experience at MIT in its full and appropriate context. For the past 150 years, MIT has been both a reflector of prevailing social attitudes and a respondent to the mandates of social change—a dynamic example, in effect, of trends in both American higher education and American society at large.