Presents data regarding income and educational level of Blacks who moved into previously White residential areas in New York City. Finds different patterns of racial succession in tracts near areas of Black concentration, areas distant from Black ghettos, and White residential sections with many recently constructed rental units. (Author/GC)

Uses the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series to examine literacy or educational attainment of African American migrants from the South to northern cities, 1880-1990. Consistent with migration theory, Black migrants had significantly higher levels of education than southern Black nonmigrants and lower levels than northern-born Blacks. Both…

Aggregate occupational inequality between Black men and White men declined nationally in each decade between 1940 and 1980 as a result of Black migration out of the South in the 1940s and 1950s and to improvements in relative opportunities for Blacks in the 1960s and 1970s. Contains 41 references. (Author/SV)