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Peer reviewedTolnay, Stewart E. – Social Forces, 1998
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…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Blacks, Educational Attainment, Migrants
Download full textTucker, Charles Jackson; Reid, John Daniel – 1974
Three issues are discussed in the beginning of this paper: general trends of urban population growth among blacks since 1930, regional variations in growth and distribution from 1950 to 1970, and urban growth and metropolitanization. The remainder of the paper examines the growth of the black urban population by size of place from 1950 to 1970.…
Descriptors: Black Community, Black Population Trends, Blacks, Change Agents
