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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

  • 4 older comments, and then…
  • 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."

Playing an accordian while the crew turn a windlass onboard MAGDALENE VINNEN

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

  • Howard33 said:
    He figured out how to get the easy job.
  • minions & myrmidons said:
    the old "heave ho". wonderful collection, thank you.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    On this History page of the SEDOV there is a slide show of contemporary photos of the MAGDALENE VINNEN with accompaniment of a German sea song with accordion - maybe what they sounded like? - www.sts-sedov.info/eng/history/
  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia ooooh just got to this now. Do you reckon it could be a recording from that time? Perhaps it is worth us contacting them to find out where that sound recording came from! What a record if it is! Love it, thanks so much for pointing us to it.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons No I don't think it is an old recording, but certainly an old song which gives an idea of what a German male chorus with accordion accompaniment sounded like.

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.