Includes discussion of: family and early education; graduate studies at the University of Chicago and the University of Pittsburgh; financial assistance as a student; responses of students and staff when a teaching assistant at University of Pittsburgh; membership in professional organizations; history of teaching career and teaching as a rewarding career (outstanding students past and present); influential persons on career choice; difficulties of recruiting blacks into scientific fields; attitudes of black students towards mathematics and the sciences; science majors with deficiencies and the 4 year college program; black vis-a-vis white institutions for black students; attempts to merger North Carolina Agricultural and technical college with state institutions; difficulties of doing personal research at a black institution; overview of physics departments at black institutions; geographic distribution of black physicists; research at white institutions; activities in professional institutions including Beta Kappa Chi; reaction of white professional community to personal research work; outstanding black physicists and scientists; attitudes of students toward academics; and future plans and present research work.