"Harvest of Shame" Revisited
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- Опубликовано: 23 ноя 2010
- CBS News chief national correspondent Byron Pitts reports on the condition of migrant farm workers 50 years after the premiere of Edward R. Murrow's celebrated documentary "Harvest of Shame."
I'm here ten years later during the pandemic's second year.
I can't even imagine what's going on now.
OMG I can't believe I'm watching this, I was one of the children, I was born in Martin County FL on a labor camp in February 1951, this was filmed shortly after, As a child I heard all the stories told by my father, uncles and aunts about working the season. I remember the buses and trucks that hauled people to the farm to work all day long in the hot sun. I recently published a book that tells stories of times during the season where I was born. I titled my book The Season I am sure it would make a great movie! read the book The Season by HB Turner
how can we veiw or read your book
Please send me your name and address and phone # I will send you a book. Thank you for your interest. HB Turner
FB me under Bridgette Turner I will friend you and we can inbox from there, thanks again.
Hello,, My family became migrant worker in Belle Glade, Florida in 1957. I wrote a memoir about my experience as a migrant worker,
Don't Worry About The Mule Going Blind, by Betty Owens Tucker. I would love to do a follow-up documentary on Harvest Of Shame!
If you're interest in partnering with me with the project. Email me at bettytucker64@gmail.com
@@bettytucker5767 I was an eight year old when we went to Belle Glade and lived in a tiny tin shack on cement pillars in the camp. Four of us in a 12X16 cement floored tin shed, divided by curtain walls. Cooking was done on a kerosene four burner stove, and furniture was whatever ragged discard that served.
Drawing water from the public hydrant out by the showers. Studying third grade homework by a coal oil lamp because we couldn't afford electricity. Watching the house lizards climb the uninsulated tin walls while winter rains drummed the outsides. Being looked down on and mocked by the "townies" because their parents taught them how. Yeah, I remember.
The only thing lower in that society than being black, was being a fruit tramp. And the only thing worse than being a fruit tramp, was being a half breed fruit tramp. Like "A Boy Named Sue", I got tough early on.
The Rez is a hard life itself, but that migrant camp was worse. Even as a child, I felt like a "trustee" prisoner; always watched with suspicion, avoided like Typhoid Mary, and barred from social activities. (Church groups came out of self righteous penance, to bus undeserving kids to tantalizing glimpses of a better life denied them this side of the Jordan River.)
Yeah, I recall those "good old days", but not with fondness. Anybody who lived in poverty back then never really thinks there was all that much good in them. It was a "hand to mouth" struggle that wore my parents out before their time.
If it were up to me, I would let those memories go. But they have never let go of me.
Wow amazing stories. My mom was a child of a migrant worker. When she was five they moved to America from Mexico and my grandpa worked in the fields in Fresno. It was there that my mom and her sister had to be out in the fields w my grandma and grandpa they both got sick as adults bc they were around pesticides as children. They were the only two out of 7 kids that had to endure that until they moved to Oakland CA in the 60s. So now I understand the struggle after watching that documentary. Makes me angry and sad.
This is what i did growing up .mainly my father and i went from okeechobee/pahokee Florida to ceaderville new jersey every year .my father was sometimes the lead man becuase he spoke perfect english and spanish and was as tough as steel .he commanded respect from both the workers and farm owners .we made good money becuase he knew how to work it /where to go at the right time ect .mostly we worked in the lettuce,romaine,boston,pepper fields .he dident drink alcohol the rent water and utilaties were free so he always had a wad of cash on him in case of emergency like bad weather ruineng the crops .which did happen sometimes like when hurricane Matthew 🌀 came .we just picked up and went to new york .man the storys i can tell
Put the stories on your your youtube channel
a penny a pound. how generous
from 10-13k to 17k-20k...so it seems to make a big difference.
A penny per pound seems tiny, but when they're picking hundreds of thousands of pounds per year it's a huge increase in pay to people who work so hard.
I grew up in Florida and Michigan with a lot family members who worked picking fruits and vegetables all their lives. It is incredibly tough work.
I now work as a software engineer but every now and then I like to go picking for a day or two to remind myself of my humble beginnings.
My thoughts exactly like that supposed to the best they can do. Ridiculous doesn’t surprise me tho the way the country has gone to shit especially now.
I could JusT Cry😫😓😢😭
Out here in the Plains States, some farmers pay as little as $5 per hour in wages, probably less if they can con someone to work on a monthly salary as contract workers so the farmer can weasel out of paying over time unemployment & workers comp. insurance, along with the employers share of SS/Medicare. They may complain that kids who where raised on a farm aren't stupid enough to work for a farmer. :)
POV: School brought you here
I was so interested
Bruh the whole time I was watching this, I had the song “Harvester of Sorrow” stuck in my heD
Same here dude... xx
I work the mission valley in Montana during cherry harvest, I work with natives and Mexicans, they'll work most white folks under the table...
Do you eat nothing but beans and potatoes every day? And do you do hours of hard manual labor every day on that diet? And do you harvest your veggies for hours even in the blazing sun, without breaks?
Sad
Agriculture destroyed humanity .. it's has had a deep impact on the relationship of man & woman. Production & greed has become the priority of man. So sad
Marlboro Cigarettes was the major sponsor of it because liberal commentator Edward R. Murrow would smoke Marlboro cigarettes in his documentaries And Murrow would tell us how great tasting they are at commercial break.. Murrow fails to tell us in the documentary that the tobacco industry was one of the biggest employers of these workers to pick their product. Geee....must of just slipped his huge magnificent liberal mind.
I saw that! I thought that was insane too! I’m like wow if it didn’t come full circle. Crazy!
Right? I mean, how can you have a documentary about the field labor involved in picking the foods on America's Thanksgiving dinner tables without talking tobacco? Because, if there's ain't an issue more important to the MAGA crowd of dolts, it's that a 1960 documentary on the plight of children of transient, illiterate field hands does not include tobacco.
Looks like Georgia today... only in black and white!
Plight
Nefarious
Its better to have some place to work for the day ernie some money for the day.
They have too many kids
The American Dream--this must be some version of Ozzie and Harriet. Well "Cinderella" was a white girl.