Well, I know that—in any case, I was nominated for a couple of
fellowships, when I was at North Carolina Central, and one of them was
the General Education Board, and the other was the Woodrow Wilson
Fellowship. And at the time, one of the members of the committee . . .
well, I don't want to go that far, because I—the details are a little
hazy, but at that time, my father was working, I think it was the dental
school, or one of the other schools. He was no longer at the dormitory.
He'd been moved to—one of the professors there knew about where I was at
that point and time. And he mentioned to my father, that I had a pretty
good chance. I don't think he, I don't think he did anything but
obviously he was aware of some of the things that were going on in
making that decision. So, I don't want to say that the fact that he knew
my father played any role, because I don't know that, but I know that he
did say to my father that he thought I had a fairly good chance of
getting one or the other. And in addition to that, related to one
extent, after that happened, after the decision was made, my picture was
in the newspaper. And, one of the businessmen in Chapel Hill, white
businessman in Chapel Hill, long time, born and bred in Chapel Hill, had
run a business for years and years, knew everybody, knew everything. Saw
my picture, and of course he stopped my father on the street, and said,
"saw your son's picture in the paper, who are
you?" Well, meaning who, what's the background on your family. And of
course, he had my father go back to my father's father, etcetera,
etcetera, etcetera.