After-School Careers of Negro High School Graduates of Houston, Texas, 1933

For more than thirty years Negro graduates have been receiving high school diplomas in Houston, Texas. These graduates are taking some part, great or small, in the activities of the communities in which they are living. Consequently, after commencement, whither and what of the high school graduates? This question among others suggested the present investigation. The Department of Superintendence of the National Education Association in its report in 1928 on the educational needs of pupils in fortyfour small high schools in New York State' brings among other things to one's attention the necessity to know the following facts about students: (1) further study, (2) employment, (3) vocational ambitions, (4) vocational opportunities of the community, (5) offerings of the local high schools. The importance of this type of study was impressed upon Allen by a prominent business man during an interview about seven years ago. He said

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