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Peer reviewedTolnay, Stewart E. – Rural Sociology, 1995
Analysis of public-use samples of 1910 and 1940 censuses of the rural South revealed significant variation in fertility by social class for blacks in both years and for whites in 1940. Farm laborers of both races reported the lowest fertility and steepest declines over the period. A woman's education was negatively related to fertility in all…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Birth Rate, Blacks, Educational Attainment
Dunbar, Anthony – 1969
Some 97 families (having 500 children) who live in the Louise-Midnight area of Mississippi were interviewed for this study conducted in 1968. The 45-minute interviews were taped, and excerpts from the tapes serve as starting points for disussions in the document on areas such as employment, food habits, health and health care, political climate,…
Descriptors: Agencies, Agricultural Laborers, Blacks, Community Responsibility
Download full textBrown, Minnie M.; Larson, Olaf F. – 1977
This paper identifies individual and institutional factors which have facilitated or inhibited the achievement of successful black farmers. The information derived from the case studies is used to develop a model which can be used in working effectively with black farmers. The thirteen case studies discussed focus on the following: (1) reasons for…
Descriptors: Achievement, Achievement Gains, Agricultural Laborers, Agricultural Occupations
Browning, Robert H.; Northcutt, Travis J., Jr. – 1961
A 5-year project to develop public health services for migrant workers was initiated in Florida in 1956. The project staff consisted of 8 public health personnel: 2 public health nurses, a public health educator, a public health nutritionist, a medical social worker, a part-time sanitarian, a liaison worker, and a secretary. Two practicing…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Blacks, Dental Health, Family Characteristics
Jones, Lewis W.; Lee, Everett S. – 1974
The rural Negro population has been of public concern since the slave status was defined and an ideological defense of that status began to take shape. When slavery ended, a definition of the Negro status in custom and in law was undertaken wherever Negro people were concentrated. Controls were devised to "keep the Negro in his place."…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Agricultural Occupations, Black History, Black Population Trends
JOHNSON, HELEN W. – 1967
THE WORLD POPULATION IS INCREASING VERY RAPIDLY, WITH YOUNG PEOPLE (UNDER 25 YEARS OF AGE) CONSTITUTING ONE-HALF OR MORE OF THE TOTAL. IN THE UNITED STATES, THE POPULATION HAS INCREASED TO APPROXIMATELY 200 MILLION, AND WITH THIS INCREASE, THERE HAS BEEN A SHIFT FROM A RURAL TO AN URBAN MAJORITY. EXTENSIVE COMPARISONS OF RURAL AND URBAN YOUTH ARE…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Laborers, American Indians, Blacks
