Watch the entire original broadcast of one of the most celebrated documentaries of all time, 1960's "Harvest of Shame," in which Edward R. Murrow exposed the plight of America's farm workers.
it is the same today in 2018 what good is a part time job working 2 or 3 days at 10.00 or 11.00 an hour . you cant even live or buy food , but that is all that is out there today so we did not change to much did we ..
@vincent jones work hard? Been there done that. Work smart!! No country should build on the concept of working hard. It makes no sense. That's the slave mentality that this country built. Smh
The American employer detests an educated worker. What they want is the educational system to provide TRAINING - which is the acquisition of a skill- preferably in a very narrow area so as to fulfill their needs without having to compete for your labor - instead of KNOWLEDGE - which is the goal of education. An educated worker is a THREAT.
This makes me cry for all of my ancestors and the people who fought for me to just be able to hit down on a bus drink from a water fountain swim in a pool drive a car sleep in my own bed thank you for what you have sacrificed for me and my children God bless you and may all your souls rest in peace
Children today need to watch this documentary. I was born in 1960, my parents got lucky Mr Ford helped a lot of black people back then moved to Michigan to work for him, at Ford motor company, and both of my parents work for him. My dad only lasted 7 years and he died of kidney failure. But my mother retired and still lives today. She's 83.
We are still in bondage by the wicked but for a time. We are now walking in our Jubilee Restoration Exodus time out of Babylon 💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾. We paid 4000 thousand years for our ancestors disobedience now it's the psalms 83 Confederates ⏰ time to pay back God.
Except that’s a lie. Black oriole in rural areas did better than most races.. the city was destroyed by liberals, and they continue to do it today.. there was more poor white and Asian people then, than any other race..
Harvest of shame, hmmm. Time has stood still, this situation is still happening where workers are hired and travel by agencies bus in batches to work at their haired destination. Taxed heavily and still live in poverty and hardly making ends meet, cannot afford to eat, pay their bills and even feed their children. More and more people becoming homeless. Going to work in these modern slave labor factors or farm picking field is another day fight to stay in one's job as you have to battle keep your job facing racism and covert bullying, intimidation to the point openly physically harrasing people in gang style mob. The policy that's in place is not designed to protect workers, it's there only to protect company as it's a battle to get support for people of colour reporting racism in workplace that leaves them cripple with fear loosing their job if they complain, not only that but fear of being physically hurt . this leaves them mentally drained to the point ended up in job poverty. NO COMPANY POLICY ARE THERE TO SUPPORT A WORKER, MUCH LESS A PERSON OF COLOR. MY EXPERIENCE AS WELL WITNESS OTHERS DISMISSED FOR REPORTING RACISM.
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I talk to my Father all the Time who is 89 he’s seen and lived through all of this and had to move to New York at age 18 to get work and more opportunity, then he had picking tobacco in NORTH CAROLINA. He often talks about how hard him and the family worked for little to nothing. My Grand Father would sign with an X! GOD BLESS THE ANCESTORS FOR THEIR STRUGGLE AND SACRIFICE!❤
My heart broke with all of theses families. We’ve come a long way financially but our society isn’t so humane. This documentary was humbling to watch. ❤thank you for uploading it
In modern day leftist politics, there exists an illogical way of "defaming" your opposition. It's simple, and for some reason very effective. You just call them racist. Who'd-a-thunk-it? Now, at the same time, we've heard of psychological warfare tactics that come in the form of "blame them for what you do". A reverse-psychology of sorts; because if you blame somebody of something, there's a 100% chance that you don't/didn't do the same thing, right?... Wrong, this is an overplayed tactic that the left has been using for sometime (as long as I can remember). It actually resembles more of a subconscious defense mechanism deployed by the mentally unstable because of their lack of ability to argue with Truth on their side. The reason I make this point of the underlying "game" that is being played is because we have empirical evidence presented to us in our very own History books of the big lie that is being portrayed on us. The left has and is blaming the right for the very thing that their party has obsessed on since the mid 1800's. Where-as the Republican Party, has historically been in favor of virtually all anti-racist laws. The List 1857: Democrat Supreme Court Justices ruled that slaves are not citizens and could not expect protection from the federal government. The final tally was 7-2, the only votes in favor of the slave were Republicans, all of the the votes against the slave were Democrats. 1863: Abraham Lincolns Emancipation Proclamation stated that all slaves were now to be free. Lincoln was assassinated 6 days after the Civil War by a Democrat named John Wilkes Booth. 1864-1869: Amendments 13-15; outlawed slavery (Amendment 1), made citizens of people who were born in the US, protected all citizens from unfair treatment by the states (Amendment 2) and protected citizens right to vote regardless of race and color (Amendment 3). All of the votes, House and Senate, including revisions, were split down party lines- Republicans in favor of, Democrats against. 1865: The Black Codes, created by the Democrats, these codes prevented blacks from things like owning businesses, owning property and voting. 1866: The KKK, another Democrat creation, formed as a "military like" presence to combat radical Republicans, enforce black codes and terrorize anyone who opposed their ideology (sound familiar). 1870's-1965: Jim Crow Laws, created by Democrats, basically a continuation of the Black Codes. Included things like segregation and played a part in restricting jobs and education. 1860's-1920's: Lynchings, used by the KKK as a way to strike fear into the hearts and minds of mainly black Americans and others who opposed their ideology. 1871: The Enforcement Act, not one Democrat voted for this bill that would punish violence perpetrated by the KKK. The bill did pass, however President Cleveland (another Democrat) repealed most of the bill roughly 15 years later. 1922: Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill did eventually pass but was filibustered by Democrats. 1960: Civil Rights Act, set forth for voter protection had a 78% Democrat disapproval rating determined by vote. 1964: Civil Rights Act, would end discrimination regardless of race, sex and religion, also provided more voter protection. Roughly 33% of Democrats voted against compared to roughly 19% of Republicans who voted against. Democrats also filibustered for 60 days. 1963-1969: Lyndon Johnson, he was quoted as saying "I'll have them n*ggers voting Democrat for 200 years" around the same time that he passed his infamous "Great Society" bills, which consisted of welfare, assisted housing and other programs of that nature. We'll discuss the "Great Society" and it's harm to mainly black Americans but also to poor folks of every color a little later. 1996: Hillary Clinton made a comment that inner-city blacks are super-predators and should be brought to heel. [8] 2018: Many Democrat talking heads made derogatory remarks about Kanye West after he visited the White House to talk with President Trump. One labeled Kanye West as a "token negro" and another said "Kanye West is what happens when negroes don't read." Wow, this list has some major talking points that should be answered for by Democrat leaders, especially the ones making the baseless claims that Conservatives are racist. Keep in mind, the only opposition that Democrats had since the mid-1800's is the Republican party; meaning that Democrats were basically always against the equal treatment of black Americans and on the contrary, Republicans were basically always for the equal treatment of black Americans. But now, with the wave of a magical wand, Republicans are racist.
@@DreadDazeTV Read "The Silent War" by Frank Furedi along with "The Racial Contract by Charles Mills I als9 link in these two Frank Wilderson clips ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aYP6vExRrFY.html Alongside Tommy Curry he is altering the conversational landscape ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3pkDA197J7g.html There is also this longer essay on white nationalists x white radicals which it seems Wilderson better conceptualized much later www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/isr/vol25/no01/vernon1.htm This 20 minite RU-vid video on Race and Communism explains lots ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Mfb0B0KTOHw.html Check out their archive.org page at the bottom: archive.org/details/interviewkimdawn ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Mfb0B0KTOHw.html
@@ArreycltGirl my grandmother and granny lived through HARSH segregation (then again we are from SC), my granny died at 93 (she would’ve still been alive had she not tripped and broke her ribs) and my granny is only 63. It wasn’t that long ago at all!!! Especially since America held unto slavery for so long.
I was wondering if any of the children filmed for this report had seen it since they've grown up. I remember before Obama repealed the Smith-Mundt Act, when the news actually investigated stories and allegations and reported them truthfully to America.
Do y'all see that teacher? That's the kind of teachers we had when I was young! They were respectable and respected, because they deserved to be respected. And they really did help you learn.
Exactly. Their mere presence garnered respect. Their presence made you want to be a better person. How they carried themselves, communicated, and their passion to teach is lost on this generation. I'm 43 years old and was blessed to have teachers like her along my educational journey.
These young black kids stated around the 31-minute mark they would like to be a "doctor" or "nurse" when they grow up. As someone who works in a predominantly black middle and highschool, my students of color tell me they want to be a "rapper" or "football player"... This breaks my heart as a black woman.
@@24POWERS What's the likelihood of them becoming a rapper or professional football player? We need to start being realistic and teaching our youth their brains can be just as good as their physical abilities... We as black people put way too much focus into sports and not enough into education. Disagree if you want, but that will only keep our growth as a race stagnant.
@@kathyh4804I don't need to live anywhere else. I have to ask for better from where I live now. America was never great for anyone including white Americans. If it was great, it wouldn't still have the class disparity it has now. 7M+ infected; 200K+ dead in less than 6 months. 15% unemployment maybe higher; police snatching people off the streets (Portland, OR). At 5:18 this lady is asking for basic needs to be fulfilled while living in America.
Man in one interview he ask the black family why did she? And acted as if the white family didnt do the same thing hell we was all poor. They had it like it was a black thing
@@TheBLACKMQQN & @vance little: There's several reasons, not all of which have been solved in the 40 years since 1960... Girls were expected to marry; the poorer the family, the younger the girl. Married girls were expected to fulfill their marital duties; according to the husbands desires & without benefit of any birth control - there's no such thing as 'No'. Welfare services, during this time & for several decades after, mounted concerted efforts to isolate fathers from the home; through threats & promise, leveraging people's basic necessities & whether or not they'll receive any. While this focus was primarily waged in black families at the time; all poor communities were targeted to some extent.
For someone to call these suffering people the happiest people on earth is a down right shame. It takes be back to the notion of the happy slave of the south which is how slave owners defended slavery.
I was born in 1983. This break my heart to see & hear. I use to tell my Gma :I wish I was born back in the day, she'll say :I don't know how good I got it. And then she'll tell me stories about the old days( 40s-60s). And I couldn't believe what she & others went through. How hard she would have to work for a 1 days meal..We got it easy!
Not as easy as we should. And they're trying to back pedal us every chance they get, once we can all agree to get along and be cordial without the madness, we won't have it as easy as we should.
Every degree I’ve earned, I think about my grandparents and great-grandparents. They weren’t able to get their education, however their kids did. They all graduated from high school and many went off to college or joined the military. Fast forward to 2022, I have 2 bachelors degrees, 2 masters degrees, and working on my doctorate at an Ivy League University. Thank you for pushing and making us know and believe that we are worth more. Thank you for honoring the power of education and giving me my spirit for social work and social reform. Your work was not in vain. ♥️
@Luk Worthy exactly bro lol. They think they are going to change it from the inside not knowing they are being brainwashed and trained to do the very thing the system wants them to do. They are becoming even better slaves than our ancestors ever were bc they want to do the job. They just don’t get it. Now they are the very Marxists that the system wants them to be.
This has nothing to do with degrees but a fair wage and capitalism we been brainwashed into believing that indoctrination is education college is not for everyone I know you mean no harm in your statement but it shows how indoctrination has conditioned u it doesn't matter what yo occupation u should be paid for making a capitalist rich
1957 Civil Rights Act Republican President Dwight Eisenhower called out the 101st Airborne to protect Black school children from Democrat protesters after a Democrat governor refused to implement a desegregation order written by the Republican Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Republican Attorney General Herbert Brownell originally proposed the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Democrat Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson had Judiciary chairman Sen. James Eastland drastically water-down the House version, removing stringent voting protection clauses The bill passed 285-126 in the House with Republicans providing the majority of votes 167-19 and Democrats 118-107. It then passed 72-18 in the Senate, with Republicans again supplying the majority of votes, 43-0 and Democrats voting 29-18. Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, who later ran for president, voted in favor of an amendment to water down the bill. Kennedy's 1957 book, Profiles in Courage, celebrated the vote of Sen. Edmund Ross to acquit Pres. Andrew Johnson, the first step in ending Republican Reconstruction reforms and paving the way for the Democrat era of Jim Crow laws and the segregation era. The 1957 Civil Rights Act was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Republicans passed the Civil Rights Act of 1875. Johnson told Sen. Richard Russell, "These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don't move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there'll be no way of stopping them, we'll lose the filibuster and there'll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It'll be Reconstruction all over again.
It's still happening today, hiding this 3:57 evil is perfected now. Black, brown, poor, women - all still get paid less, even with unions, even with advanced degrees, it's no different.
My grandmother was born in 1919. She passed in 2020. At the age of 101. Raised by her born in 78. It was always a pleasure and a horror at the same time too listen to some of the things she and others went through. It also made me wonder about what stories she didn’t tell me. These stories were the tame stories she told. I was able too experience some of this growing up in the 80s in various states. Iowa ,Nebraska, Ohio , etc. being the only person of color in most of the schools I attended.
Freedom always creates inequality. Nothing you can do about that. Every regime which comes in to eliminate it, only escalates the problem tenfold. The "holy" communist russia came in with the theme of eliminating poverty and starvation, instead they starved out 6 million purely on accident. This world is a hard place. The problem is westerns are given too much. I think it is great many have privilege and it is distributed amongst all the races, but too many spoiled kids whiny and cry about poverty to either join it or accept it. Goerge orwell noted this. There needs to be some accountability for your actions. Saying these poor souls got here out of no where is a lie. Now days, for instance, if you do not do 4 things, the chance of you being poor is reduced by 90 percent. So although we can have empathy for those in need, we must also accept their hand or parents hand in the situation they are in. I think if we as a society do this, say no more kids out of wedlock, no more 16 yr olds without jobs, no more hard drugs, we can create a place without poverty but that would mean accepting responsibility and that my friend is not an easy thing to do.
@@bornfree8073 your comment is worth the relevant thought. Sure beats the bs of 3 piece of carp and 5 loaves of bread , or some mythical invisible representative puppet master/driving blind sheep to influence pain. Thanks 👏🏾✊🏾🇺🇸🎉
Help the working people, Down with Lobbyists, and rich politicians!!! People have FORGOTTEN, Government Is To Work FOR THE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES!!!!
@@dianestevenson4996 yeah that's the lie they teach us in those public schools... "Take the mind, But keep the body strong for future breeding and labor...". Yep this still applies, look how many people lost there small businesses... Let alone home's etc, people's entire lives have been untraveled because of the recent Planed- demic.... SMH Now just think within 50years people are making hand over fist of what they were and the same thing's still apply..... It's obvious that the whole "American Dream" moto was a fraud/ploy to manipulate the slave's to get what they want... Away with our Useless Government systems, and start over....
Absolutely devastating. Can you imagine seeing this on Thanksgiving? A true masterpiece. I have tried watching it all several times but I just can’t take it. What if this were your life? There but for the grace of God go I.
Why is this still happening...did u hear that guy they love this not a care in the world they get to travel place to place without a care in the world wtf????
Apostates still see even their own people as livestock, parrcidle,like Abel, Joseph and Jesus people were against them but Jehovah knows the number of everyone's head,cast all care the blood is Holy Genesis 4 :10 (NWT) 🛐
Wow. I feel terrible for the woman with 9 kids. She's about the same age as me but she's so aged. Life took such a toll on her. I hope she found some hope and relief from poverty.
@@RicheeBe if you don't want kids, dont have sex, dont get married. Marriage was the way to make sure the father took care of the mother and children. Dont want kids? Dont get married and dont mate with anyone. If you don't want your animals having kids, and kittens and puppies and guppies and calves etc., you don't let the males and females have sex and breed. Besides, these kids would take care of parents when they got old and infirm.
No, it was replaced by sharecropping and peonage labor and other forms of forced labor which largely though not exclusively targeted black people. No one ever asks why allegedly free people needed a "civil rights" movement 100 years after allegedly being freed in a so-called free country run by people who allegedly fled Europe to gain freedom.
She started working at 6 and wasn't going to get off until later that day and only got ONE dollar. She was getting about $0.10 an hour. I know that the cost of living was different but come on. That is horrific. This bring me hurt, sadness, and anger
It's no different than today. Employers exploit their workers all the time. That will never stop. People just need to quit being naive and letting people take advantage of them. Sadly, this happens more to black people than anybody.
I respect this documentary so much. This is my third time watching it, and this is the first time I realized it was broadcast on Thanksgiving Day. I wish somebody would make a new version showing the lives & living conditions of today’s migrants.
June 22, 2023 At Least 16.8 Million Illegal Aliens are in the U.S., Costing Taxpayers As Much as $163 Billion Annually, Finds New Analysis by FAIR (June 22, 2023, Washington, D.C.) An analysis by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) of the most recent Census Bureau data reveals that at least 16.8 million illegal aliens now reside in the United States. This figure represents an increase of 1.3 million just since the beginning of 2022, and 2.3 million since President Biden took office in January 2021. Along with the sharp increase in the illegal alien population comes sharp increases in costs to American taxpayers. The unprecedented rate of influx of new illegal aliens over the past year would add $12.6 billion annually to the costs of illegal immigration, bringing the cumulative net cost to at least $163 billion a year. At the current pace of illegal immigration, the annual net cost will exceed $200 billion by 2026.
this nice lady Mrs King lived right across the street from my Grandparents in the Okeechobee projects. ...I'm feeling so damn emotional now feeling first hand what they been thru...thank you grandma and grandaddy and Mr and mrs. King for doin this so we didn't have to....****tears*****
My grandaddy came here ...6 graded education started his own business built his own hm in area called Crystal Sands in Gifford fl we still own family land till this day Thank you my elders💚 rip 🙏
Absolutely not, you can work a full time job and start a business with the power of the internet, amazing times we`re living in, you can really get out of 9-5, and build financial freedom, these people did not had anything, nothing, no opportunity to get out, we`re amazingly lucky to be alive in this digital era, no excuses
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1963">32:43</a> Absolutely broke my heart. 😢 My Grandmother was very smart but due to the segregation laws in Virginia at the time, black people were not allowed to attend school beyond 8th grade. At which time she began working to help bring money into the household, then at 19 she began a family of her own. I wonder what her life would have been life if she didn’t face those educational restrictions during that time.
Yes we of many races wonder if our generation would be more advanced, more prosperous, etc, however we respect ancestors terrible lives and move on, holding hate for past is helping anyone
@@yvonnegrant3736Well some people don't get to just move on when the ones responsible for oppression are still committing crimes against humanity, evil.
@@yvonnegrant3736the only hate being spewed here came from from you… lol self reflection is needed. I hope you can rid yourself of that burden, it must be heavy 😢❤
i remember at 13 watching this in social studies with the class, and then going to the farm on weekends working to bring in food for our family. i lived in the city, but working on the farm was the only way we brought in food for the house, we were so poor. my classmates talked about the people in the documentary, about how poor they were; no one at school ever knew my secret or i wouldn't have had any friends. sad and judgmental times. also sad, the times are still here for many.
Dont cry over the feral human population. They'll survive slot better than citu industrialized folks and repopulate the world after we kill ourselves with our omniscient ideas of heaven on earth.
onyibiafra....... listen to how the white people really talk, they wasn’t to educated themselves. How can yu educate anybody wen yu can barely educate yourself???
This truly a harvest of shame! My heart is really touched, particularly after watching all of the suffering and the unwillingness for leaders at that time to ignore. My folks moved to Michigan and worked for General Motors, in an effort to improve our family livelihood. God Bless these hard working people and, to my disappointment, the children who were allowed to work.
Absolutely right, Eric Hiatt. I wish we had better information channels. About the last of the breed is Bill Moyers. Back in the day, there were many trustworthy newsmen and they drew big audiences. Is the change in ownership, or just don't we want the "bad news" a.k.a reality?
My mom was a child in those days and grew up literally the exact same way here in TN. Her 7 siblings and my grandparents lived in 2 roomed shack's with possibly an outhouse. But she made it clear they never starved or went hungry. My grandad hunted deer, rabbit etc and my granny worked for a white family which still keeps in contact with her today. And the kids picked the fruits n veggies. They also grew there own food and sold it. Eventually they had cows, horses, and pigs, sold milk, sold butter. My Mama said they were poor but those was the happiest times of her life with her family. But fast forward and the kids of the white family my granny worked for bought a house for them back n the 80s I believe.& Fully paid off. (All 3 kids are high end lawyers btw) As of 2022. The family my granny worked for paid in full my grandads funeral & 2 of my mama siblings. My granny doesn't have to pay for anything. They upgraded her home and shes basically living out her 80s like she's supposed too..... A queen 👑
Thank you! I am 59 years old and we had an outhouse and drew water in a bucket from a well until I was 9yo. Your mom's childhood experience sounds a lot like mine in rural GA. Both my grandparents owned the land they farmed and were within walking distance of each other (which means 2-3 miles- lol) and it was awesome growing up around our multi-generational relatives in the country. The highlight was the family reunion every year around the big oak tree in my paternal grandparent's yard. It irks me when people think everyone was so miserable just because our parents didn't give us iPhones and Jordans as kids. It's good that you are taking notes from your mom for future generations in your family. Blessings!
This is about my 5th or 6th time watching this documentary. It never gets old and it remains a reminder of part of a nation's suffering and hardships. When dirt poor REALLY meant DIRT POOR. Nostalgia overwhelms me whenever I see Edward R. Murrow. This documentary touches my soul. I cannot shake it. I watch this whenever I get a chance. It humbles me and keeps me grounded and mostly reminds me to count my blessings.
I was born in 1959, in Boston Massachusetts. I am so glad I didn't have to live this way. I dare not look down on people who did. One lady said in this documentary, she is 29 years old and the mother of 14 kids. She went to the fields at 6 am in the morning and did not leave until 4 pm. After working 10 hours, she only made 1 dollar. SMH. A lot of these workers couldn't even afford the basic necessaries. Things we take for granted today. Roof over your head, food to eat, a place to bathe, decent clothes on your back. Lord I don't take what I have for granted. I thank you every chance I get. May God be the glory.
ROGER COOK THE WAY THEY TREAT THE DOWNTRODDEN IN BOSTON IS HORRIFIC. THAT IS THE MOST RACIST PLACE I HAVE EVER BEEN IN MY LIFE. EVEN PEOPLE OF COLOR THINK THEY ARE HIGHER AND MIGHTIER THAN THE NEXT PERSON OF COLOR. BOSTON IS FULL OF ARROGANCE AND PRIDE AND IT WILL SOON BE DESTROYED.
Thats where the saying came from, ' a dollar a day and deeper in debt ' . Lots of people worked that way. Everyone used to have land and a farm, until industrialization and urbanization. Thats these people. Remnants of what everyone used to be, displaced farmers , getting off the land and into modern life. That's why Mexican migrants came to work. In their countries too , the transition was happening. Now, migrants are the unskilled poor with no land to sustain themselves . And remember, there are now much nicer camps provided by big farmers. Barracks, bathrooms, showers, clean water and cooking area. Thing us, nobody wants to police it.
Until people give their hearts and lives to JESUS CHRIST this world will always be a Sinful and heartless nation. We all need to repent from our wicked and sinful ways before JESUS CHRIST comes back on earth or it will be too late to repent. Repent means to turn away from.
@@MikeTheWeedMan wickedness, injustice, indifference, selfishness, slave trade or this kind of thing here, is not a white man's disease. All mankind is guilty before God. Some are just worse than other, and others a bit better than those. Acts 2:38; acts 17:26-31 The poor and the rich have the same end - physical death and then judgment. Some rich men (like Abraham) are in Heaven and some poor people are in hell. Many rich people are in hell and many poor people are in Heaven. And the little children who do not know right from wrong, who die in their infant years, are safe in the arms of Jesus.
I'm 'white' from Romania, but the part with Jerome and his sisters made me cry🥺 even though it's the second time I see this documentary... It's absolutely amazing how cruel we are, humans. Fuck racism to the end and back! Peace❤
“in name they are not a slave, but in reality they are worse than a slave. Somebody is making thousands of dollars out of their sweat. Is that a slave or not?”
It is incredible that this documentary originally aired on Thanksgiving day, 1960. Indigestion anyone? Thank you CBS, Mr. Murrow and all associated with it.
I can't help thinking this is a very carefully worked piece of propaganda designed to fill the viewer with anger and hopelessness. Even more so after reading your comment on when it was aired. I wonder what was in the news that week?
@@seankelly5318 it was part of a larger push for world and us hunger awareness. You'll see the presidential speech from that year touches similar notes. It was not designed to fill people with hopelessness but to push for a very specific set of goals. The UN was young and so was the idea of working on hunger and directly feeding people as a political issue was relatively new
What's worse it's that we've rebranded a holiday that celebrated the slaughter of countless numbers of natives and we still celebrate the day as if we have something to be thankful for its disgusting.
Too bad the mother didn't take that little boy to the doctor for that foot, or at least try to dress it better. I stepped on a board with rusty nails when I was a kid and had to go to the hospital for antibiotics. I'm surprised I didn't lose my leg!🥺
@@susanmassey4158 I will assume that you posted this in good faith and do not realize that it isn't the whole truth. It is important to know the whole story in order to make informed decisions. In the 1950s and 60s, the platforms of the democrats and republicans switched places, due to the so-called [Southern Strategy](en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy) When the civil rights movement began in the 50s, Republican leadership *actively* sought the votes of white southerners. Until that point, white southerners had been staunchly Democrat, which had been the party of the remainder of the confederacy. The presidential platforms of both Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon attempted to nationalize Jim Crow laws, which were 'in danger' of being dismantled. Nixon's public policies (many of which are still enforced today) were centered almost entirely on keeping control over the "other" races. This was all acknowledged in 2005 when GOP leadership apologized for "past mistakes". Also, this is not ancient history. Some of the people, and certainly most of the children we saw interviewed in this piece are alive today, probably including the guy claiming that migrant workers are "the happiest race of people on the planet".
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1030">17:10</a> she really wanted to say more but she had to keep it somewhat light on her response while being questioned I can feel she wants to say more than what she was saying #RestInPeaceQueen you have inspired me to keep researching and learning
Remember, the 1930s were the great depression years. But in 1925 a loaf of bread costs about a dime, and a pound of round steak about 50 cents. Plus, slot of migrants got paid by what they picked.....and based on what the farmer was getting for the crop that year. I knew somebody who was a migrant worker in the 70s . White guy, citizen, had a wife and 3 kids I think. They were poor, but they had enough.
@@chickenfeet9558 tje dads disappeared with government welfare. Before the civil rights movement, divorce and unwed pregnancy was very very low. Lower than the whites.
In the 21st century America and Europe has shipped this now to places like India, Pakistan and rest of Asia. Racketeering corporate capitalists now making this work models global!!!
This was quite revealing and extremely enlightening. The personal testimonies of the persons interviewed are stirring. The earning capacity, working conditions and overall lack of opportunity is riveting. It would be interesting to compare and contrast the realities associated with this subject...then versus now (2023), as well as uncovering whether any of the individuals interviewed are still alive.
that young boy Jerome is stronger than he knows , he has a nail in his foot and still has to watch the kids i wonder what how he grew up and what he came to be
@Anthonette Middleton He did make it to adulthood, although I’m not sure what age. I was searching on google and came across an article that mentioned him and showed a picture of him as an adult. But it did not give an update on how he is: www.google.com/amp/s/amp.palmbeachpost.com/amp/3429728001 There also is an article where Ella King (Jerome’s mother) is saying that there was inaccuracies displayed in the documentary. It can be checked out here: www.google.com/amp/s/www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1990-11-26-9002270565-story,amp.html
As respectful as the interviewer “seemed” while interviewing the black lady, notice…he addresses her by her 1st name. But when speaking with the white lady, it was “Mrs. Doby!” 🤨
Being from ancestors from Georgetown South Carolina. On both my mother and fathers side. I remember my mom , my grandmother ,my uncle my grand aunt talking about those days mWatching this video reminded me of the hardships that my ancestors endured. Most of my family moved to the North for a better educational opportunities and a better life. Even though in the north the work was hard there but there was better paying jobs and more opportunities. When my grand daughter gets a little older I will be telling her the stories of her ancestors. Amen 🙏🏾
I was born in 1956 and all of this was culture shock to me. I never was among the poor of the south or the worst conditions within the city I lived. *I was in total shock when I saw JEW-TOWN for the first time.* (shopping center in Chicago that's actually a slur towards the Jewish community.) (Eliminated now.) I've known hard times, but nothing ever like what these people suffered, to include the white ones. The children in this documentary are my age.
I had to cry when the children had big dreams, but the teacher thought it was impossible to attained an education based on their circumstances. As a teacher myself I feel that we are failing our children when they are so confident and we tell them it's not possible. It is possible, sometimes all they need is the self confidence and the sky is the limit to what they will achieve.
As long as you "teachers" keep teaching us we are slaves and Lies in history you All are partiscipating in Genocide. I will NOT be sending my children or grand children to the bull shit learning system of lies yall put on Indigenous Americans.
This is why we should all be grateful that we have folks like the immigrants from Mexico who are willing to work in the fields. Make America Great by showing our gratitude for these folks. I've worked with a lot of Mexican people and I have never seen anyone else willing to work as hard or as long as they do.
I had the honor of speaking with my sons great grandmother. It was humbling to see a woman retired and successful whom had discribed living in old train carts. Staying warm by the fire. Her and her siblings used the same bathwater heated by fire. The girls went first then in order of youngest first and oldest last. They didn’t go to school until what would be considered late mid- school early high school, because her dad had to work throughout the country. This took place in the mid 1960s. Then speaking with my sons great grandfather- which was much more um awkward. He shared artwork that won awards in college. Jim crow-esque artwork. He described having a few "nannys." He drove us to the cotton field that was STILL intact where he'd sneak off to chase/ follow the nanny children. He shared he did not understand why he was in school and they weren't- they were working. The nannys all raised him in lieu of his mother whom drank and when she wasn't a drunken fool she would be sneaking out men who weren't his dad. I feel so lucky that BOTH my son and I were able to hear these stories. My grand parents are dead and my dad never knew him, but briefly meeting him once I was 21yo. My bfs step dads mom and bfs bio dads dad were where we heard these stories from and while they aren't my grandparents- I still cherish their stories and am so happy my son got this experience. I never had that opportunity just photos and stories from my mom, aunts and uncles. So if any of you have a chance to sit down with their loved ones and ask what life was like as a child- I highly encourage you to do it now- record it, keep it forever, because that was there story told by them and eventually all youll have is stories from others.
Dear Lord, I Am ungrateful. I do not appreciate life, I do not thank you enough. You saved me from being born during these times, and yet here I Am complaining about my life my whole life instead of saying thank you. I eat, I have a roof, I have a bathroom, I raised my children safe, these people suffered in ways they did not deserve, but yet they are humbled and here I Am complaining?.
Yes, Maria....We should be grateful we were not born then....those marching in the 60's in the south were truly courageous and made life easier for us today...John Lewis, who marched with King is the next greatest black man fighting for justice today.
Welcome to Maria's Channel was born in 1979. I love God more for keep me from those people time. Me too I need to prayer God more. I can’t never be someone slave.
Moronic prejudice moochers gambling irresponsibly, catering to their expensive habits like Trump, Queen of England and these ill-fated educators do today, politicians spent 4.6 million on crablegs in 2018!
It is still done today. That young person at your door selling a alarm service or Magazines and even cleaning products is traveling state to state with others working for a company that puts them up in hotels and feeds them hot dogs but they make no money because they are told that the money they made has gone to the hotel and food.
Yes sister.....written in all the HOLY books. Its referring to us and that wicked people style as beast, devil, satan, pharaoh, Israel, dragon, mystery Babylon. There doom is inevitable...GOD is not mocked. Everywhere they've gone gone; kill steal and destroy. Behold the pale horse its rider's name is death and hell followed close behind..
This was taking place in the days when there were more small independent farmers. Now there are huge, incredibly wealthy companies. Theybare taking advantage of programs meant for indeoendent farmers.
I went through this growing up, but never stopped trying, through cotton fields, juveniles, reform school, prison, sweat shops's, a railroad hobo, I finally made it and retired on a pension!
My father went to Detroit alone. Leaving my mother with 2 children and pregnant with me. He never made it back home. He died on his way back by heart attack many,many years later. Many men had to leave their families to go get a job that didn't pay enough to support a family nor send for them.
@crowwoman lucky I presume the whites are not suffering the same way and stop speaking for a world of people; you don't know what you are saying so just speak for yourself.
Queenie Bee This will be the family's future update! OUR ANCESTORS AND WE THERE DESCENDANTS THE TRUE BIBLICAL ISRAELITES!! if we repent in the land of our captivity and come back to the Lord our God and keep his commandments... JEREMIAH:30
I was born in 1960. My mom and all of her children including me, worked in blackberry fields picking blackberries. I think, if i remember correctly, we were paid 5 cents for each crate of berries we picked. We got to those fields before daybreak and left at sunset. But i must say, we ate blackberries until we couldn't eat anymore! We had outhouses to relieve ourselves in. I thought it was a normal life and i wouldn't change a thing about it!
When people say there should not be any federally mandated minimum wage I laugh at them. They have no idea how far capitalism can go without government oversight.
But you're still wrong. 1) your good would have cost 4x as much probably, 2) people in cities lived like this and made a dollar a day. 3) it was THE GREAT DEPRESSION. I dont think anyone today appreciates how bad things were for just about EVERYONE during the great depression
"what's that straw over there for" "Well that's what they give us to sleep on" Ladies and gentlmen this is unregulated capitalism. Take a good look at it. Tell me what you see.
keep in mind when the lady , who is 34 but looks late 40s , says her girl wants to go to school she doesn't mean college. She means middle school / high school.