Correlates of Rural Black Poverty
- 1 June 1977
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in The Review of Black Political Economy
- Vol. 7 (4) , 413-423
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02689450
Abstract
The misery of America’s rural black farmers and farm workers continue as a reproach to the nation; black farmers and farm workers, numbering about 328,000 in 1970, have not adequately shared in the enormous productivity of American agriculture and in the rising prosperity of the nation.Despite modest steps to improve their level of living, they remain, by and large, at subpoverty-income levels, lacking adequate health care, ill-housed, malnourished, and poorly educated.6 The annual migration rate of rural black youth is insignificantly lower today than during the great migration flows following the world wars; this is a testimony to the barrenness of the alternative lifestyle under which they might live.Keywords
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