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Shacks of Negro migratory workers, Belle Glade, Fla. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • 4 older comments, and then…
  • Jonathan Stiles said:
    These are basket-case Third World poverty conditions . . . there were apparently parallel universes going on in one country. One half (white) appears to be mass-producing aircraft with which to combat evil and tyranny abroad in Europe and Asia; the other (black) half are living in the evil of poverty and tyranny of discrimination at home. What can be acknowledged overseas as evil may be un-acknowledgeable at home?
  • kayteego said:
    No kidding.
  • Peggy Archer said:
    pleroma - in certain parts of the USA, there is still third world poverty today. It's much more startling in 2008 to see people living in squalor than it was to see this type of thing at the tail end of the Depression.
  • Jonathan Stiles said:
    I was astonished when in the early 90s I came to the USA and saw this home grown degradation for my own eyes. Coming from Europe I'd only seen relatively positive images of American prosperity and power in the media: this was the can-do superpower that had landed men on the moon . . . . And yet it couldn't take care of its own people adequately.
  • Ann Longmore-Etheridge said:
    It still can't. We're a first world nation with large third world areas.

Houses which have been condemned by the Board of Health but are still occupied by Negro migratory workers, Belle Glade, Fla. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

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  • roderickbodine said:
    The houses remind me of the ones described in Zora Neale Hurston's book "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
  • phoppernowlin said:
    Houses like this were common in Southeast Texas and Lousianna into the 1980's.
  • Jumbo Donuts said:
    This year's FEMA housing....
  • If you need to know, then you know said:
    Can you really say "negro"?
  • Ceridwen said:
    I think you should be able to say "negro," although I haven't actually heard it used in years. There might be some people offended by it (you can always find somebody who is offended by something) but it doesn't have the deadly taboo status of that other "n word."

Emmett Murray at a recording session: Belle Glade, Florida

from Florida Memory

  • Scott Clark said:
    Looks like a Kapa Continental guitar -- made in Maryland.