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Was There a Level of Empowerment Within the Institutions?
I always felt empowered. Not only did it not feel as if no one was trying to stop me, but I had the distinct impression that people wanted me to succeed. On the other hand, we would have been what, less than 20 years away from the first black PhD to graduate from MIT,. Shirley Jackson, right? 1971, something like that, somewhere around then. So we weren't that far away from thefirst first. And we were still another eight years away fromthe first black PhD computer science.