Chicago's magnet schools were one of the nation's earliest experiments in choice-driven school desegregation, originating among civil rights advocates and academic education experts in the 1960s and appearing at specific sites in Chicago's urban landscape during the 1970s. The specific concerns that motivated the creation of magnet schools during…

In order to investigate meaningful differences between the blue-collar and the white-collar segments of the Negro community, an area probability sample stratified by occupation from the Chatham community area of Chicago was used; eighty Negro males were interviewed. (JM)