Interviews with Dr. Massie

CATALYST
Article from the Laurel Leader
by Mary Lou Wendell
JULY 1, 1993

"Brains + Passion = Naval Academy's first black professor"

Video clips from an interview with Dr. Massie
for the National Science Foundation
February 28, 1983
by Dr. Shirley Malcolm

1. "Chemistry is very easy, depending on how you present it."

• "The black colleges still today light a spark that the other colleges don't quite light."

• "One of the real tragedies is that most of us don't come from scientifically oriented homes..."

• "If I had not told the truth, we don't know what might have happened."

Samuel P. Massie Chairs of Excellence © 2005 - 2009

( Updated  06/11/2009 )