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.
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.
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
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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!❤
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.
@@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 ua-cam.com/video/aYP6vExRrFY/v-deo.html Alongside Tommy Curry he is altering the conversational landscape ua-cam.com/video/3pkDA197J7g/v-deo.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 UA-cam video on Race and Communism explains lots ua-cam.com/video/Mfb0B0KTOHw/v-deo.html Check out their archive.org page at the bottom: archive.org/details/interviewkimdawn ua-cam.com/video/Mfb0B0KTOHw/v-deo.html
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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
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.
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) 🛐
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....
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.
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.
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
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!!!
32:43 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 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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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???
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❤
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.
@@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".
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?
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.
“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?”
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
17:10 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
NO OPINION, FACT, SLAVERY HAS NEVER ESCAPED BLACK FOLKS, DONT BE FOOLED BY UNCLE TOMS, DEPRESSION HAS ALWAYS BEEN OUR FIRST, MIDDLE, AND LAST NAME, SMH!!!!!!!
Yes SLAVERY Is still alive, Jim Crow just came up with a new way of doing things, it's a damn shame, when this country spent money on wars and don't take their own.
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.
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.
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.
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!” 🤨
@vincent jones Yea that will solve a nearly 500 year problem. No schooling is necessary to recognize a demon. Why do you think she was talking about white people when she said demons. Politicians and world leaders are pretty demonic white or black
Sad ...extremely mentally strong people back then. I complain when my alarm clock go off and I get ready for work having breakfast and driving my nice car to work but never again after seeing this 😢
We STILL R, Regulated EVEN More through Fabricated laws & Over Price properties....Cost of Liivig... NEVER Match or satisfactory Balance Earnings....Lead The Masses dwn Deeper Trap...called CREDIT!
Drive your nice car,don't let depression consume you sister,I love you,we know the etymon for black is white, apostates got caught in their lies,the blood is Holy Genesis 4 :10 (NWT) I'm empathetic too,but you have to know the people who are to be authenticly forerunners for Christ,at the end of the day, you're either a forerunner for Christ 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!🥺
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.
9:02 This is not long ago. The 9 year old here is currently 71… He still has a lot of life left to live, and stories to tell from this time period. We can’t act like it’s sooo long ago, when there’s literally people here to tell this story FIRST HAND.
I couldn't believe the lady worked all of those hours... and only got $1. If she put her babies in the daycare, she would have made 15 cents. I know it was 1960, but damn !
Deneen Jeffries *Its no different today. Plenty of migrant workers who make just pennies a day, can’t feed their families and typically are crammed in a very small house with a ton of other migrants because no one can afford anything of their own*
I want to add to the previous comment. If you're interested you can look up for the CWI or the Coalition of Immokalee Workers based in Florida currently is fighting for higher wages for farm pickers. Today, a farm picker earn about 42 cents for a bucket of tomatoes collected. At the end of a 12 hours shift, they just have a little bit over 45 dollars.
Deneen Jeffries im know..lord have mercy..14 kids 29 yrs old ..how lord?? I admire her strength! Those black ppl wouldnt or couldnt even look the inteviewer in the eye..shame smh
1960 🙏🏾☥🌹 I'm proud of my people never hold your head down we have nothing to be ashamed about. 🙏🏾🌹🌹🌹🌹 We are so beautiful.🌹🌹🌹 They took us from our beautiful home land. And unashamed to document what they do.
@@jackoffs8564 Some Africans did sell other Africans into slavery, and then on the other hand on many other occassions Europeans did in fact just kidnap unsuspecting Africans who might be out hunting, fishing, farming or walking from one village to another. The Europeans who were involved in the Transatlantic Slave Trade document in their own records how they at times would just kidnap unsuspecting Africans
Hill Aaron those "europeans" actually where Jewish people they owned the ships and the people working on them also that would have started a war if it was a common thing why would the leaders of Africa allow that? when they made.money off trading other black people who they branded and put in the ships I don't doute it may have happened but the main reason was African leaders being very greedy just as bad as the Europeans
Africans did not sell American Negros; Africans sold the ORIGINAL HEBREWS! You better recognize and learn the difference. A day of reconning is on the way. Deuteronomy 28th.
@@jackoffs8564 I agree some african leaders did engage in selling other Africans to the Europeans and you are correct European Jews did provide alot of financing for the transatlantic slave trade.
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!
My 80 year old friend in Biloxi Ms. was a share cropper when she was younger. She said she had lived in Hattiesburg at that time. Miss Hattie Mae Smith. She passed years ago I just loved listening to all her stories.
"Sure you can get a job, but what good is the job if you can't live on what you make" As relevant today as it was then.
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
+vincent jones: Study hard, learn a skill that will benefit your corporate masters enough that they toss you a bone. WTG.
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.
raymond schmidt get a skill
Most of the children in this video are still alive today, 1960 wasn’t that long ago
my thoughts exactly
I was born 1955. I'm 65.
This was ONLY TEN YEARS before I was born and I'm Gen X.
I was born in 1960.
I'm 23 and my mother was born in 1960.
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.
My grandfather let South Carolina for Saginaw to work at Ford in the 1940’s.
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..
awe im so sorry for your lost
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.
My mouth dropped when the lady said she worked from 6-4 picking beans and only got paid $1 that is crazy wow.
Damn, adjusted for inflation, that's about 11 dollars in today's $... She was making 1.10 hr... Despicable.
Back then you probably could rent a small shotgun style house for $25.00 a month!
I dont know what it's like to make $1.00, but I have worked for $3.00 back in my day for 12 hours, up at 2am and cutting fruit by 4am.
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
Most of them are in heaven.. your Ancestors are watching over u.. Show thanks by giving drink and meat offering
Amen
@BME08 Nimaleshwar DK I hate interracial dating.
Let me guess , you thank them by taking the vaccine from the off spring of the people who did this to your ancestors 😂😂😂
@BME08 Nimaleshwar DK pfff mann if u dont shit yo asssup
The look of defeat in everyone’s eyes is just heartbreaking!
Florida had a Democrat governor back then. They never change
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even the children.
A look that has been ancestrally passed down, which makes it even worst...if that is possible!!!
But that dumb man says there HAPPY so 😥
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!❤
Amen
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.
We’ll look at the lives of football players, looks pretty nice to me. Rappers and athletes become “professionals” all the time.
@@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.
That's because they are paid more than a doctor or teacher. The kids only know this by the glamorous lifestyle portrayed.
Some of these people are alive today and you want to say, "Make America Great Again." Who was America Great for exactly?
Ridiculous.
There’s nothing stopping you from working hard.
Try living in any other country and tell me America was never great! Why does everyone want to live here IF it’s so bad?
@@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.
@@missblink4611 You completely missed the point. Try again. Some of these people are alive today and you want to say, "MAGA" when was America great?
So, you're still a member of the democratic plantation?
This is the real American Horror Story and many are still living it.
No their not
@@teo5836 okkk Teo
@@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
ua-cam.com/video/aYP6vExRrFY/v-deo.html
Alongside Tommy Curry he is altering the conversational landscape
ua-cam.com/video/3pkDA197J7g/v-deo.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 UA-cam video on Race and Communism explains lots
ua-cam.com/video/Mfb0B0KTOHw/v-deo.html
Check out their archive.org page at the bottom:
archive.org/details/interviewkimdawn
ua-cam.com/video/Mfb0B0KTOHw/v-deo.html
@@teo5836 #OkCuck
@@teo5836 #OkCuck
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.
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!
What the hell ??? What type of black person wishes to be born back in the day ?? You're weird for that
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.
The doby family mother is my great grandmother. My nanny is one of the girls. I'm very thankful for that woman and what she did for her family.
Wow which girl was your grandmother?
So scary we are not far removed from this. This wasn't to long ago. Reading from people like you who are related to these families is mind blowing....
@@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.
Wow, another pathological liar...
When the lady with 14 kids had to leave her kids to make one dollar breaks my heart
Why did she have 14 kids?🤷🏿♂️
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
but what do you think of the decision to keep having children when she and her 14 were already struggling?
@@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.
@Le Colosse that may be part of it...but, she stated she's 29yo. 14 kids means, at best, she started at 17...more likely 15.
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.
They shouldn’t have so many kids
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
It will come as no great surprise when the powers at be will censor this video for dissent
NOoOoOo surprise HERE 🙆🏿♀️
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.
Americans have made all kinds of noises about crimes against humanity, all over the world ! EVERWHERE EXCEPT IN AMERICA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sad but true
You said it.
So true!
Exactly!
@Annetta Winrow it's no secret whose the devil
29yrs old & the sista already had 21yrs of work experience
Alvin Neckbone Johnson and 14 kids.
mrsslop922, you beat me to it, and it's the White Mans fault too. S. M. H.
14 kids
@ohsevenone , you're not too smart. A troll of sorts. You believe what you've stated. Wow. You think blacks choose this forced upon lifestyle.
@@SuperVendetta9 dont bother this moron has been going all over youtube under vids like this one posting this shit trying to incite arguments.
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.
You are not a person of color, you are Black.
That Woman who is 29 with 14 kids... working in the fields since 8, touched my soul
No reason to have that many
@@TOCC50 probably wasn’t her choice
@@jonkiyosaki6600 it always is
I don't think it's possible to have 14 kids at 29 .. physically impossible...she said 4 teens sir 😅
All I can think watching this is that slavery never really ended🤔
Right
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.
We all cant drive a Mercedes
I hope this comment is paired with the observations that the slaves are from many ethnicities.
i wholeheartedly agree with you the shame of it all :(
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*****
Tameka I hear you an sympathize...have a good cry, for them
which one was ms. king
Tameka Curtis how are her children? And how is she doing? I would love to know
That chic with all the kids GOD rest her soul
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 🙏
These people are the real people who built America
Some of them
@@deniseballeith1884 Nope white girl, all of them. You should thank our ancestors for being where you're at now, white girl
Picking crops doesn’t build a country, if it did we could’ve built Africa.
@@missmorena1049it sure did make these crackers GENERATE white wealth
@@missmorena1049Huh? Hush.
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.
Poor gettin' poorer and the rich getting richer!
Nothin new under the sun...
Yet the poor are more humble
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
@@poolnights9236 I agree with you.
I just want to hug all those kids and give them everything they deserve. :(
I was feeling the same, then, I remembered, "they are still around." Just 50-60 years younger, and living in our urban areas. They still need us.
Help... it‘s never too late!
My friend may find some are richer than the families used rent them
What you waiting on go for it start hugging and spending money ???
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It still hurts my heart to see how these people were treated but thank you CBS for exposing what was really happening to these people.
It was no secret.just not as exposed.
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.
Man Jerome remind me of why our grandads and great uncles were so stern. 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
What's crazy is I was born in the 80's that just 20 years after this, this is not all that long ago, wow the horses are living better then people
That's what you call a "recent" shameful history
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) 🛐
This still was going on in the early 80's
I guess this is when America was great Blahhhahhha
"Maybe we think too often in terms of Thanksgiving baskets and Christmas baskets and charity instead of thinking about eliminating poverty." Spot on.
Yes, that hit me differently, too.
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....
My mother was born 1952 Sanford, FL wow I see why my parents NEVER TALKED ABOUT THEIR CHILDHOOD.......no pictures no nothing
Unless you were an upper middle class in Atlanta , you were 'fair game' of atrocity .
these are our great grandparents 😢
And if you are in your mid 60’s, they could be your parents. Some are still living though they would be in their mid to late 80’s.
This documentary is painful to watch. How humans can treat one another.
You meant to say how white people treat other people.
Sky Wings, if people actually cared. This would not happen in the least
@@MikeTheWeedMan exactly my point...
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.
God plz forgive me for behaving so ungrateful, at times! After watching this, it made me realize, I need to count my blessings! We all do!
Your ancestors are monsters
@@x-tremeios8380 it’s not her fault tho
@@x-tremeios8380 What did people from Norway do to you? Lol!
@@x-tremeios8380 This is why racism isn’t going away shame on you
AMEN
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.
This is the type of journalist I want to be. Thank you for reminding America how crucial Edward R Murrow was to informing the public of the truth.
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 damn. U just had to burst an aspirational bubble! Lol!
@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.
No it was not. We should pay homage to their hard work. intelligence,and fortitude. Wow! I'm 46 and I can remember my mom picking peaches and peas.
Take your 'education' to Memphis TN and straighten that place and your lovely people out.
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
29 years old with 14 kids making a dollar a day to survive & feed her kids.🤯 That’s mind blowing!
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.
Where is the dad/dads???
@@chickenfeet9558 tje dads disappeared with government welfare. Before the civil rights movement, divorce and unwed pregnancy was very very low. Lower than the whites.
The dad's were there!!
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!!!
32:43 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
Is NOT helping
@@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 😢❤
@@Queenofdacastle huh!! Wrong person
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.
I was looking for healthy diet for people with damaged kidney and this documentary shows up!
Interesting
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.
@@jb-vb8un 💯💯💯💯💯💯
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!
The people today are the same as they were then...what world are you living in...what is the difference???
Do you mean you're among these kids then
Good for you. There are so many that did not make it through and many generations afer are still on the grind.
I would love for a journalist today to go to these same places and mirror this report in 2019!
O that hurts
They scared
Jesse Lee Peterson rules!!!!
Well, I can say Belle Glade hasn’t changed much over the years... not much at all.
CBS has a short followup: ua-cam.com/video/rkV3oVn209s/v-deo.html
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.
Doubt it 😢
So sad slavery was set free now she had to do her own work to live.. I'm sure she's doing OK.
yea before birth control and or abortions or denial of your husband sex
@@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.
@@ericacollins1985 yes, everybody is suppose to do their own work to live.
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!
I’m so happy for your granny that those people treated her well. This is the way all employees should be treated by their employers
@@sbella6719well water was used well into the eighties and occasional outhouses well into the 80s
@@sbella6719well water was used well into the eighties and occasional outhouses well into the 80s
@24:45 just outside an Ivy league school Princeton no different than the South, anything south of the Canadian border is down South
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?.
Amen!
Amen my sister.
@Sanuk Jang Lery some humans are about the dumbest on earth
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.
Spent $6.5 million in 1960s looking after birds? Cannot spend half of that educating humans.
.AND THIS IS AMERICA. ...THEN & NOW! THE KEY IS EDUCATION! KNOW YOUR HISTORY, AND SHARE
@@laurabryant9281 History is a lie too
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???
Real Talk
Jesse Lee Peterson rules!!!!
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❤
Im White and I picked in the fields from 10 y/o
@@jeanjones7952as you can see the doc showed both White and Black and what you may not understand is you were oppressed too by your own kind.
@@jeanjones7952dummy
I’m wondering if he lost his foot and it’s been over 60 years.
Romanians are not white
America you will be held accountable for your selfish deeds.
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.
And this is still going on 😢😢Even now in 2022 people who worked all their life and retire can't afford to live!!! STOP THE GREED !!!
@@dianestevenson4996 Start your own business. You don't have to work for other people. 🙄
$1 in 1960 was the equivalent of $9.50 today. imagine not even getting a dollar an hour
This is a damn shame while they are free they're unemployable, but as slaves you worked them to death
Just think about it these are the days of the United States being ruled by the Democrats they care about the poor just as much now as they did then.
@@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".
@@nobody8328 she did not have good intentions. She was spitting out white racist propaganda. You gave her the truth
@@susanmassey4158 Que the propagandist
So true
14 children at 29?😢
I find that Marlboro ad at the beginning very ironic considering tabacco was one of the many crops that were harvested via sharecropping
I wish we still had newsmen of the integrity and caliber of Edward R. Murrow. The true reporter is a dying breed.
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?
We do, just watch TYT!
Kenith McIntosh Tyt is feminazi hour lol
30$ A MONTH IN BANGLADESH FOR TRUMPS DAUGHTER.
What about Shawn Hannity and the Fox and freinds crew?
2020 anyone 😭✊🏿✊🏽✊🏻
Am here watching again on this pandemic all the way from Kenya
I'm here with ya
Yup
@@michaelmwanyinge2690 ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
Yup. Cheers from Toronto, Canada.
wow.. The pain in these people's eyes. Really makes me feel blessed
Amen! I think that's all they ask is that their ancestors realize how truly blessed we are in comparison.
Did that employer say, “they are the happiest people in the world?” Is that being in denial or just plain cruelty?
That’s what they said about slavery, black folk were happy in their situation.
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.
Samantha Nickson....I hope things are somewhat easier and better for you now. Love and respect from the UK
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.
the owners enslaving the workers still exist today and the employers are using the same excuses in 2017. greed, greed. that's all it is.
“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?”
We're blessed to live in this era 🙏🏾 🙌🏾 ❤️
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
Compare that to spoiled brats today. They can’t even ride a bike without helmets, knee and elbow pads.
@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
@@TheRedsofine That is really an extreme comparison
@No username of course they deserve care. The situations they went through made them tougher than today’s participation trophy kids.
@No username sure. Keep thinking that.
I watched half of this and I can't watch anymore. We should NEVER EVER take our elders for granted, we must honor them all day everyday.
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 🙏🏾
😢 my family is from Georgetown, Nesmith and Hemingway and sadly this was their past too.
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.
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.
the look of despair on these families faces angers and hurts my heart
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.
Roger Cook
I wonder if she had a husband or not.
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.
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.
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😂😂you can’t be serious
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.
When TV news actually meant something
Typical boomer
Sensationalism has been in style since the late 1800s
There was tons of censorship back then and bending of stories...humans are humans
The migrant workers should have never had to pay rent of any kind on those shacks.
Damn right.
Yes, keeps Th ppl.in addition debt.
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!
They didn't have to rent them ..many slept underthe stars .
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.
The way they've lived is inhumane and sad!!!!
😢😢😢😢😢
17:10 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
If after watching this in its entirely You are not somewhat humbled to appreciate what You have, then You are extremely lost.
Referring to which race being grateful sure hope not black folk
or maybe some can see the deception in this video because they ar not brainless idiots like you.
That's why I like history, the facts are real. In my opinion slavery still exist, Jim Crow have been "Institutionalize"🏛️🇱🇷.
Eddie Pratt that isn’t the American flag at all. That is the Flag of Liberia. The Liberian 🇱🇷 flag and the American 🇺🇸 flag are completely different.
exactly sad and tragic truth!
@JVee. Kingston you saw right through him
NO OPINION, FACT, SLAVERY HAS NEVER ESCAPED BLACK FOLKS, DONT BE FOOLED BY UNCLE TOMS, DEPRESSION HAS ALWAYS BEEN OUR FIRST, MIDDLE, AND LAST NAME, SMH!!!!!!!
Yes SLAVERY Is still alive, Jim Crow just came up with a new way of doing things, it's a damn shame, when this country spent money on wars and don't take their own.
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.
I’m glad these documentaries exist, we need more people educated
I would recommend this as a subject in school, this is a must video to see and learn from.
I agree with you but I know the school board will NOT APPROVE OF IT..
Ll⁰000⁰⁰warld leadership meeting
They would never approve this.
brings tears to my eyes. god bless them.I feel blessed and humbled
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.
We are a bunch of pansies in comparison to these hero’s this doc is truly humbling
As I watch this, I hear my great uncle's voice. "We ended up in Arizona because we followed the season." Never seen a clear picture until now.
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.
It does humble you. It is truly heartbreaking. Second time myself.
Dirt poor means, you are so poor you literally eat DIRT, to survive, saw this IS documented in Southern USA.
I’ve watched it several times myself.
I think you're a beautiful person, and that I would like you very much.
Naw! You you need to watch 1234 and5 hidden color Documentary! Now that will break your heart!
Their eyes tell their sad and almost hopeless story.
Unfortunately this still goes on today
"The only good thing about the good old days are bad memory" Mark Twain.
This is so sad and only makes me want to go harder to have a successful life today
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Good luck
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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!” 🤨
Social norms of the day. Blatantly disrespectful
"We used to own our slaves. Now we just rent them." Smdh
Nine dollars a year, what a dam shame and if these demons had their way the wages would still be nine dollars!
$900.00 /year
They are working on it.
@vincent jones
Yea that will solve a nearly 500 year problem.
No schooling is necessary to recognize a demon.
Why do you think she was talking about white people when she said demons.
Politicians and world leaders are pretty demonic white or black
@vincent jones
She wouldn't get a loan, as easy as you could
@vincent jones
School of lies.
Black women are easily possessed huh.
Guess the others are already demons
Sad ...extremely mentally strong people back then. I complain when my alarm clock go off and I get ready for work having breakfast and driving my nice car to work but never again after seeing this 😢
Don't forget about your over priced coffee
We STILL R, Regulated EVEN More through Fabricated laws & Over Price properties....Cost of Liivig... NEVER Match or satisfactory Balance Earnings....Lead The Masses dwn Deeper Trap...called CREDIT!
Drive your nice car,don't let depression consume you sister,I love you,we know the etymon for black is white, apostates got caught in their lies,the blood is Holy Genesis 4 :10 (NWT) I'm empathetic too,but you have to know the people who are to be authenticly forerunners for Christ,at the end of the day, you're either a forerunner for Christ or not 🛐
@@ministerstayfly9213 Jehovah doesn't disapline with reproaching Agapé 💞Namasté
@@rright9497 only apostates conduct the monopolizing,they've been caught doing it to bethalite properties!🌏🌎🌍
You can see the sadness in there eyes. :(
This documentary is very humbling! Make you appreciate the current times we live in.
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.
No major TV network would ever air this now, let alone on Thanksgiving.
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!🥺
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.
100%
impossible----> I'm possible! I can do ALL things through Christ who strengthen The ABCs AlwaysBelieveChrist
Excellent comment, I wholeheartedly agree!
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.
@@rosemedallion2848 christianity did NOTHING for my Ppl nothing but fuck us up even more. Thats yall shit not ours.
Excellently 💯
9:02 This is not long ago. The 9 year old here is currently 71… He still has a lot of life left to live, and stories to tell from this time period. We can’t act like it’s sooo long ago, when there’s literally people here to tell this story FIRST HAND.
I couldn't believe the lady worked all of those hours... and only got $1. If she put her babies in the daycare, she would have made 15 cents. I know it was 1960, but damn !
Deneen Jeffries *Its no different today. Plenty of migrant workers who make just pennies a day, can’t feed their families and typically are crammed in a very small house with a ton of other migrants because no one can afford anything of their own*
I want to add to the previous comment. If you're interested you can look up for the CWI or the Coalition of Immokalee Workers based in Florida currently is fighting for higher wages for farm pickers. Today, a farm picker earn about 42 cents for a bucket of tomatoes collected. At the end of a 12 hours shift, they just have a little bit over 45 dollars.
Deneen Jeffries im know..lord have mercy..14 kids 29 yrs old ..how lord?? I admire her strength! Those black ppl wouldnt or couldnt even look the inteviewer in the eye..shame smh
Adjust for inflation. It would be 8.4 dollars of today
Denisse Camargo Wow. They deserve so much more.
1960 🙏🏾☥🌹 I'm proud of my people never hold your head down we have nothing to be ashamed about. 🙏🏾🌹🌹🌹🌹 We are so beautiful.🌹🌹🌹 They took us from our beautiful home land. And unashamed to document what they do.
@@jackoffs8564 Some Africans did sell other Africans into slavery, and then on the other hand on many other occassions Europeans did in fact just kidnap unsuspecting Africans who might be out hunting, fishing, farming or walking from one village to another. The Europeans who were involved in the Transatlantic Slave Trade document in their own records how they at times would just kidnap unsuspecting Africans
Hill Aaron those "europeans" actually where Jewish people they owned the ships and the people working on them also that would have started a war if it was a common thing why would the leaders of Africa allow that? when they made.money off trading other black people who they branded and put in the ships I don't doute it may have happened but the main reason was African leaders being very greedy just as bad as the Europeans
Africans did not sell American Negros; Africans sold the ORIGINAL HEBREWS! You better recognize and learn the difference. A day of reconning is on the way. Deuteronomy 28th.
@@jackoffs8564 I agree some african leaders did engage in selling other Africans to the Europeans and you are correct European Jews did provide alot of financing for the transatlantic slave trade.
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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!
Wow this is great to have a reference of these times... God bless...
My 80 year old friend in Biloxi Ms. was a share cropper when she was younger. She said she had lived in Hattiesburg at that time. Miss Hattie Mae Smith. She passed years ago I just loved listening to all her stories.