Question #6

Heather: Did you have any limitations as a scientist or a person?

Alexander Miles: As a scientist I wouldn't say that I had very many limitations becasue even in the times that I lived in where it was very difficult to get along with whites, other scientists were not racial as you would expect them to be. I even found myself making frinds with white scientists. As a person however, things were a bit more difficult. In a time like this, people are not very optimistic to a black man inventing something that could potentially protect them in the long run. Although some people were not as open to the idea of a black scientist as others, I still made it and to this day my invention is still used and people even build off of it.