Presents results of a survey on housing conditions, knowledge of health hazards, use of health facilities, and health needs among Black agricultural workers in Leflore County, Mississippi. Indicates the need for health education, better medical coverage, and community involvement in health care delivery, to improve health conditions in the county.…

The formation of Pearl City, a Black community in Florida, is examined in the context of Black migration at the turn of the century. The history of this community is presented. Institutions such as the church and the family increased solidarity, cohesiveness, and adaptation as Blacks immigrated to Pearl City. (VM)

Following the removal of the Freedman's Bureau and failure of labor recruitment efforts targeted to Chinese and European immigrants, the practices of sharecropping, tenant farming, and the hiring of convict labor replaced slave labor in the South's postbellum agricultural economy. Lack of minimal economic power among freed Blacks resulted in slave…