Harvest Of Shame (1960)
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- Опубликовано: 18 июл 2018
- "We Used To Own our Slaves; Now We Just Rent Them."
Harvest of Shame was a 1960 television documentary presented by broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow on CBS that showed the plight of American migrant agricultural workers. It was Murrow's final documentary for the network; he left CBS at the end of January 1961, at John F. Kennedy's request, to become head of the United States Information Agency. An investigative report intended "to shock Americans into action," it was "the first time millions of Americans were given a close look at what it means to live in poverty" by their televisions.
The program was an installment of the television documentary series CBS Reports, widely seen as the successor to Murrow's highly regarded 1951-1958 CBS program See It Now. Murrow's close associate, Fred W. Friendly, who coproduced See It Now, was the executive producer of CBS Reports. Their colleague, Edward P. Morgan, had taken up the issue of migrant labor in his CBS Radio Network commentaries. Morgan's assistant had visited Senator Harry F. Byrd's Northern Virginia farm during the apple harvest and was outraged by the conditions of the migrant laborers working there. According to Murrow biographer Joseph Persico, Friendly decided that the issue was a natural for Murrow, long seen as a champion of the oppressed. - Wikipedia
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I often wondered why my black ancestors died in their 40s back then. Static’s showed it was old age for them. Treated like slaves even during reconstruction and beyond, their blood, sweat, and tears built this country with their wounded bodies. I remember overtown and the wooden houses in Miami. Tears, so many tears.
My Lord, 29 years old with 14 children, making $1 a day....It's mind boggling.
For real
one quote: "These are Citizens of the United States" and yet another:
"We used to own our slaves, now we just rent them" [THE HARVEST OF SHAME]
Deep, REAL DEEP! thanks for sharing
People didnt want assistance they wanted jobs and a house of their own ,to own but the white man time is ending soon
@@Sophisticated8 Thats a lie. The white man is alive and well
Joe Brown okay he is alive so what like I said his time will be up soon
Joe Brown so I say go shake that family tree and see what comes tumbling down
@@joebrown9895 barely 😂 according to the numbers
"Broke when we left, broke when we got back..."
Sad they had guidelines for minimum food and rest for cows but not for migrant workers
I never learned any of this in my American History classes in school. It is a shameful side of American history.
Your not going to learn anything out of their American history books bc it's not our land technically.
@@thankthelord4536 You are right....And it is the NATIVE INDIANS LAND.....YET, WHO RUNS THIS WORLD!?
Things are fucked these days to be sure, but if I ever find myself feeling too sorry for myself this is a solid perspective check. It doesn't lower my expectations but it's always good to count the blessings.
True, and well said!
Truer story never told!!!!
This devil said "they're the happiest people on Earth"
Wickedness personified...!!
He is sad n now I see that not only blacks but whites were slaves as well!! Those ppl should’ve been penalized for that shit it’s sickening!!!
The most saddest moment of this film was watching all the children, not smile or " goof- around for the camera". They looked scared and not sure how to answer. We all know...now, the wrong answer could get them killed. How so very sad!
I also noticed the boy Jerome made sure he smiled whenever he talked to the interviewer ... it’s really sad 😞
@@goddessqueenkii2837 glad u said it queen because this is something I couldn't miss reminding me of being in care when a social worker came round I understood they were a team so saying anything meant nothing i was a product a number no name just that 😔💯and tbh times have moved on but the oppression stays the same
This is just so sad I mean in school they leave out so much needed history we need to know
Hence the term, "MISeducated."
@itserich the books they use don't have the real history in them smart a**
Lord, have mercy. "Shame" is right. Thanks for this.
Mr. Jones is the poster child for stupid. He said, "They are the happiest race of people." Okay..... I've seen and heard it all.
My mouth just drop..and I was literally shacking my damn head. 😮😮😮😧😧😧😩.. terrible
RIGHT?! AMEN
My mother and my father worked the fields...how in the world did they ever make it? I did some field work myself when I was a kid...in the 80's...I am so thankful my son didn't have to earn money in such a manner...I appreciate the veteran's benefits which are putting my son through college...
I'm speechless this is sad to watch.. 😥
Same the poor single mom that couldn't afford to put her children in daycare while she picked peas during the day
29 with 14 children oh my goodness. This is to sad. People don't know how good we have it now days.
Agree. I've always said the only thing good about those days was the music.
Who got it good, its the same today
@@jacobstringfellow9718 I know right, you hit the nail on the head.
You are not better off today than you were yesterday. Yesterday, there were classes of blacks who were financially wealthy. There were doctors, lawyers, business owners with store fronts, and smart laborers. There were blacks men with college degrees pushing brooms, toting bags and operating elevators.
Jim Crow Laws purposely locked them out; prohibiting them from bettering themselves. Similarly, today, black men with degrees are the last to be hired and first fired. Their starting salary is that of workers with high school diplomas. The situation is the same.
Blacks are purposely denied upward mobility in corporate America. Blacks are forced to train white, Asian, now Mexican for supervisor jobs that they are qualified for and should have been hired for. You're the most qualified! This has been written about for decades and remain a reality today. Oh, how little we know.
Another example is your domicile is taken away from you and rent is raised so high that you can't afford to live there. Or, whites and others move in now taxes are too high you cannot afford to live there.
One thing is clear, you don't attend County board meetings, you don't vote on local issues, you remain ignorant on what happening in politics. You don't vote out judges who sentence you to life in prison for stealing ice cream because you were hungry. Your schools facilities and teachers are substandard compared to other educational systems. Schools are said to be more segregated since integration.
Made $1 in 10 hours. Couldn’t pay Day Care because it cost .85 cents. Wow... 😔
Anybody notice how everybody's supposed to be struggling in this special and have similar problems, but the white families have alot better homes than the shacks the black folk are living in Smh #nosurprise
That woman spoke better and that little boy spoke better than most of the people nowadays
I was thinking the same thing about the Black students and their teacher...so proud of them!☺️
29 with 14 children gosh
"What little they possess, what little they are..."
I grew up near Riverhead and remember “the bottoms.” There were people living in the discarded backs of tractor trailers, up on cement blocks, bricks, old pallets. One of them had a canvas wall of an army tent for a door.
That man saying they don't want federal regulation should have said, we don't like regulations because then we'd have to follow those regulations and we don't want to do that.
YOU ARE AMAZING THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS
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The difference between the poor whites.and the poor blacks.are there's opportunities for the white kids when they grow up.
1960, one year before my birth. the year my parents left S.C. and came to N.J. looking for better.
My family made the same move around the same time to the same place. My grandpa sold his farm.
@@k3ionafloyd Wow, Thats s something . The majority of my aunts and uncles did the same . I hope thimgs went well with your family .
I was born in 1961. My parents went to NY and met one another there. They both arrived there in their teens separately. And they are still there more then 60 yrs later.
@@thankthelord4536 Thats beautiful . I love and respect our (Black American) heritage and its commonalities . Stay strong.
Appreciate your videos, on subjects like this, that I was not aware of. I knew about migrant workers, but never knew they had to travel, like that. Never heard of that migrant truck in NC, that killed all on board, about 20, that was a tragedy.
I don't know if those conditions continue today, but if they are I pray for those families, and encourage them to keep their children, in schooling, because that is how they will live better, and don't forget to pray.
But one thing I saw was the maker's of this video, was really working at ways to help better improve the life of migrant workers, and I appreciate that. Thanks
My God, The children have the saddest look in their eyes. My heart breaks for them
Belle Glade Fl has not changed to much...
Every young person should see this video. What blessed times we lived in.....this goes for all races🙏🏾 Thank you for posting
People still live like this..it's just different people that are the migrants today
Lol blessed times? For black ppl ?? What alternative universe are you living in? Or maybe some pharmaceutical you taking that alters reality.
@@jessicaj8083 In comparison to the capacity for growth and success we used to have? Yes, we are indeed living in blessed times. Because now we have more opportunities to succeed. Is it completely equal. No, not in America. But better? You really only need to look at the documentary to see that.
I'm still trying to understand are we still the best feed???
Every year I do the walk for hunger, soup and socks with my sisters.
Feed homeless at Thanksgiving and Christmas and give them small good gestures of gifts.
I'm only 51 years old, I didn't want any more kids in this turmoil world we live in to suffer as we did when I was younger.
So I find it more rewarding to give than to take.🤗
So
My greatgrand parents owned acres in Live Oak Florida. My mother and her siblings would have to go work the fields and they hated it. They would sneak and find away back home which was over 500 miles.
My dad hated working the fields so he went to Vietnam.
This was still Slavery.
The *only visible difference* being that America today lectures other countries on human rights violations.
I wish they practice what they preach.
Thank you for this very enlightening movie. Real USA history, not even remotely similar to what I was exposed to in school.
Same
I wonder what ever happened to Laura Weeks. Did she become a nurse? I wonder.
This is terrible of how these people was treated. Why don't the people and news media put this kind of information everyday on the news because we have been blessed beyond when looking at these people. It is a harvest of shame.
It's not as bad in 2022, but it still a lot of deprive people in america. It's channels on RUclips of homeless people in every major living on the streets. Sad
This is the most eye-opening and heart breaking video I have seen in a long time. It tells it like it really was for poor folks of all colors in quite a humiliating way too.
They went HUNGRY.
The World's Richest Country has Some of the World's Poorest,, Folks of Colour must feel Cursed at times..
All da Best Righteous People..
Read your Bible. It is a curse. Not obeying the book of the Law. Following
Other gods.
@@ladylydia762 amen, and the curse will be lifted off real soon bc of the Lord's promise!
Thanks for the video. Us girls in Salem Ore. Worked picking Beans Strawberries Cherries We were jot mistreated. Our grandma had Cherry farm . I drove tractor at 14. Then daddy did too. We dropped boxes off to the pickers with their numbers. Grandma let them putch their tents in the Orchard. Also their was water a portable toilet. And granps honemade 2 seater near the house. Why is this video like The Grapes of Wrath..? It was 1957 and 1960. I hope the families got gead for their lives. The kids grew up to get their home. God Bless🙏❤🙋
Outstanding
I was born in the late 70’s in Jamaica. A 3rd world country and “poor” by society’s standards. I have NEVER lived like this. Never went without nutritious meals.. this saddens me so much. 💔
I understand, I know about this place. That life was horrible for those people . By the 1950s my grandmother already had her house. The poor kids had to live with rats.
Thank you father Abba Thank you for making a way out. Thank you for making this documentary of the labor and migrant works for telling their story. Thank you for people like Ceaser Chavez for making conditions more bearable and changing their conditions . Beautiful people ❤ respect 🙌 👏 ❤ all of them that tilled the ground work ithe fields the migrants.
Has A Son of Afrika .
Sure Glad Our Folks Came in The 70s..
To UK not USA..
In my 50th Year Now..
Grateful for Every Day I Get..
In Swahili..
Ubarikiwe..
( Bless You )..
My heart weeps. The difference in way of life between the black farmers and white farmers don’t even compare. Look how they’re clothed. Speaks volumes
I don’t think i can ever forgive this people 😢
A.D.O.S.is well over due.this is a very.very hard life for anybody.specially for blacks.
too think how people view milk now is astonishing.
Blacks should be paid.reparation which is well over due.I grow up living like this.and it is a bitch of a life.every hard
Loving the data
I would love to have an update on those children and the entire family 💙💙
I remember seeing those busses when I was a kid
when i was in grad school the kids from the migrant camps would come to class . many time they were unkept. some looked frightened . i would feel sorry for them , but most were to shy to even be friendly. come in September. gown by Halloween. n j . 1958.
A lot of these Belle Glade black ancestors worked in the Glades Correctional Institution 30 years later. They were a very bitter and racist group of blacks . I can see why.
Rented..... wow!
And now mexicans do most of the hard labor work but not Mexican Americans.
I wonder.what would life be like.if blacks were given .reparation after slavery.a debt that was never paid.more than a 150 years ago.
I would like to think that with the money and all come land and with the land it can be farmed and by it being farmed us selling the product and by everyone having that opportunity we all could help our people pulled the crop and by that being said everyone would be ok and hope that it could generate generational wealth....if only🙄🙄
You can't put a price on slavery. This country doesn't have enough money.
America’s Black eye, no pun intended
Wow this is sad
Proletarians from all countries unite!
I’m so sorry our people suffered to this magnitude. I KNOW THE LORD JESUS IN
HEAVEN HAS SEEN ALL THAT WE WENT AND ARE STILL TODAY SUFFERING THREW.
WE ARE THE CHOSEN PEOPLE WE HAVE AND WILL CONTINUE TO PREVAIL. AS THIS
WE WILL OVERCOME IN JESUS NAME. ONE IMPORTANT FACTOR AS PARENTS WE MUST
TEACH OUR CHILDREN AFRICAN CULTURE.
WE ARE NOT ORPHANS OF AMERICA THEY OWE US A LOT MORE TGE JUST LAND AND 💰
The chosen people to whom? There is no Jesus. No god is coming to save you. Help me understand why a “chosen” people would be the ones to suffer? For what purpose? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Just how long does it take to overcome something?
Christianity is why we’re still here , let it go
They love it 😡😡😡😡😡😡
This is life before medicare and social programs that help which was legislated 5 years after this film.
Montagnard people men , women , children we work for Vietnamese some time they pay some not we worked 6:00 to 4:00 pm just$1 dollar .
Murrow makes smoking look so cool.
Edward R. Murrow used to be smoking up something in his interviews!🤣😅😂🚬🚬🚬
He died of lung cancer, by the way.
Belle Glades is still a poor city. It's not very convenient for the people who live there. The father for the 14 children did not help that lady. I met some people in school from Belle Glades and Pahokee. They were glad to be away from there.
Unemployable because the company will not hire them.
Its reminds me of east European people.they cam every summer to Germany.working on the fields.
Harvest of Shame is true this is the Great American Shame who wants to BE SHAMELESS shame on you.the powers that be here in the USA shame on you
The comments in this thread are concerning. There are too many poor them, too many babies, ......
This video and others like it are not been viewed by the thinkers and doers. What comes after you watch this video
I surely hope what happened after you finished commenting was to shut up. 🙄! People are free to comment any way they like.
STILL GOING ON
THIS WORLD IS A SHYTLOAD OF GREIF
O Yess Lori..
In Swahili..
Ubarikiwe..
( Bless You )..
@@kewsiyehboah6058 BLESSINGS TO YOU ALSO 🕊️
That dude at 19:15 .... WHAT THE WHY????
TEN HOURS...for ONE Dollar...??!!!
THAT WAS GOOD MONEY BACK THEN.. TODAY CUBANS MAKE 9 AMERICAN DOLLARS A MONTH !!
Mrs. Doby 34 years old. Mother of 9 children. 😒
Is THIS happening in America in 2021?
This country is built on shame!
5:45 milk once a week?! I mean with 9 freakin kids... I have three kids 6yo and under, they go through A LOT of milk. I'm hurtin' now that WIC only covers 1/3 of them as the older two have aged out of the program. But... FOURTEEN KIDS AT AGE 29!!!!!??? holy fudge.
Could a watched on cbs but I’m like nah
The UNDER FED.
the Roche family looks like quadroons
The commenter treats them like they are freaks, what do you want to be when you grow up etc😞😞😞
19:14 ~ 19:33 SHUT UP Mr. Jones!!!
He's a bastard
This Murrow was in advanced in is time, but I just watch the meeting for the claims, no blacks in the crowd!
Seems like a lot of whites didn’t have it so nice either.
That's their business
ThankTheLord And blacks not having and still not having is you’ll business.In fact it’s the individual’s business. I don’t go to work with my neighbor in mind and neither do you.
Yeah but they not my concern.
The Black's in this country, heck, all over the globe, is and have always struggle to survive
Pot of beans and fried potatoes is a good meal😊
Migrants...we were considered MIGRANTS....
There talking about the migration from South to North
We R StiLL liKe ThiS! The ModeRN SHARE CROPPeRs! Then dere is the MilliON dollar Share Cropper that dont Share there MoneY on the POOR!🤔😬
The white family in the beginning was struggling, just as hard as the black family. The only thing different is that black people was discriminatied against in the south.💯
slavery been over how long now
systematic fr
This is another reason.just one more.that blacks should be paid reparation.I grow up like this.and it's a bitch
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ADOS
Why have all these children without the means
You ask about the number of children these migrant workers had rather than the amount of super profits the manufacturers make. Says a lot about your values .
Just doesn’t make sense to put yourself into that situation. Having children is a choice. It’s not mandatory.
Nothing change ppl still having children with no job. My question where they get the strength and privacy for sex. I also wonder about that when watching the starving kids on commercials
Mimi These people had “jobs.” Today women aren’t pushing out children every year until menopause. The privacy? Children sleep too and it doesn’t take all day to do nothing.
Sadly, some families had a lot of children for labor
I don't know what world U live in.400 years of slavery.Still in bondage. Until Yahuwshua's return.
Still in bondage because we keep waiting for a savior who isn't coming. We have to save ourselves.
Even back then they had people to where they had to pay for daycare over all those little kids seem like they were fairly happy and healthy
34 years old with 9 kids... that’s why she was poor. Shoulda saved those pennies and took a greyhound up north and went to school. Smh..why on earth would you have that many children and you’re dirt poor?
Poor people have too many damn kids! They do this in every country India, Indonesia, Vietnam you name the place. Even today poor people are still having too many children. What a miserable life. Ugh.. Poverty is a mentality that keeps people enslaved on so many levels.
you're talking about nations where women need permission from their husbands to even access birth control
How are you gonna go to school while paying rent back then? Who would be been watching those kids? You think they had access to birth control bring poor, rural, and black?
Too poor and tired to have the luxury of that kind of logic. Glad you aren't guarding the gates of Heaven... NOBODY would get in!
If poor black people in America, did not have as many kids as they do, would PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP BE KICKED OUT OF WHITE HOUSE, THIS COMING ELECTION ??
Who have more kids than Chinese!?
Yet still, for so many years, could only have one child per couple.... Rich and poor. .......
I was born in the late 70’s in Jamaica. A 3rd world country and “poor” by society’s standards. I have NEVER lived like this. Never went without nutritious meals.. this saddens me so much. 💔