ABSTRACT
Black women continued to earn less, suffer more discrimination, have less education, and bear more family responsibilities. The family planners in the program would attempt to locate, educate, and help the women represented by the rates through a massive public health campaign. Sixty-eight percent of the women with some grade-school education had reached or exceeded the family size they had thought desirable when first married or pregnant, but they were in their early reproductive years. The child-bearing pattern for black and white women who had their first child out of wedlock was fascinating. Initially, there was opposition in Louisiana to taking women directly from the community and training them for tasks that were viewed as the province of doctors, nurses, social workers, or other professionals. An imaginative social worker contacted women with whom she had previously worked in Head Start or other community action programs.
