Take a thousand and thirteen Negro boys and girls, graduate them from high school in Louisiana, and see what they choose. These 342 girls and 670 boys—1951 graduates of 30 high schools—mostly wanted to wear white collars. Most of the boys didn't want to do what their fathers had done to make a living. Out of 30,000 possible vocational choices, why did these youngsters make only 41 different choices? In view of employment opportunities in an industrializing South, how realistic were t