The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that race is no longer the bond that it once was. That's one of the prices you pay for progress.

These guys have worked real hard to be here. To represent our community like this, being the last (Class 4A) team left in the city, we want to represent the whole city.

The number of first-class concepts being submitted to NASA by the space science community for these smaller missions just keeps on climbing.

We were visited by whites, who always found coming into the black community to be interesting. Some even found it exotic. They knew that some of our restaurants were superior to their own. One of the interesting things is that whites discriminated against blacks. Blacks never discriminated against whites, and so they were always welcome.

One of the aspects of the Post-Civil War period is that it unleashed in the black community this latent talent that had always been there but had not been manifested in so many different areas of activity.

One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.