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Negro migratory workers by a shack, Belle Glade, Fla. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • bf53490 said:
    Pretty rough conditions. My great grandfather came to the USA from Italy and tried to make a living in Florida but moved back up to Tennessee and was able to raise tobacco there.

A Fourth of July celebration, St. Helena's Island, S.C. (LOC)

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  • artpease said:
    Is this one of the sea islands which were settled with blacks after the Civil War? Seems like an all-black gathering.

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

from The Library of Congress

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  • 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.