This testimony, before a public hearing of the New York City Commission on Human Rights in May 1974, focuses on the demographic changes in the City of New York and expressly tries to point out some of the areas relevant to integration and its applicability in New York City over the next 10 to 20 years. (Author/JM)

The number of black pupils living in traditionally all white suburban Jefferson County neighborhoods has increased significantly since 1974. Data taken from school enrollment information indicate a 63 percent increase in the three years from 1974 to 1977. Increases in housing desegregation in suburban areas are complemented by a slight lessening…

Previous studies of the residential succession process have described the patterns of succession in terms of stages defined either by the responses of the residents or by the percent of black population occupying the area. The present study approaches the investigation from an operational point of view, using a microscopic technique of data…