Harvest of Shame
"We Used To Own our Slaves; Now We Just Rent Them."
By Edward R. Murrow
Harvest of Shame was a 1960 television documentary presented by
broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow on CBS that showed the plight
of American migrant agricultural workers. An investigative report
intended "to shock Americans into action", it was "the first time
millions of Americans were given a close look at what it means to
live in poverty" via their televisions.
The CBS program originally aired just after Thanksgiving Day in
November 1960.
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