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Media Covers Farmworkers - Rural Migration News | Migration ...  Legal aid groups go after the worst of these sharecroppers, and ... On July 20, 1995, CBS Reports aired a one-hour documentary on the ... black-and-white clips from Harvest of Shame, the 1960 classic TV ... There is a great deal of uncertainty about the ... Legacy of Shame lays most of the blame for the plight of the farm
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In Confronting Poverty, 'Harvest Of Shame' Reaped Praise And ...  May 31, 2014 ... The 1960 documentary examined the plight of America's migrant ... In the world of journalism, CBS' Peabody Award-winning documentary Harvest of Shame is ... They filmed in rundown labor camps and talked to workers in the fields. ... TV news teams have tried to cover why these problems persist in...
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"Reconsidering Harvest of Shame: The Limitations of a Broadcast ...  In the years since it first aired, Harvest of Shame has become one of the seminal markers of. ... (1) CBS broadcast the documentary on Friday, November 25, 1960. ... program examined the desperate plight of migrant farm laborers in the United States. ... In this way, the documentary presented the migrant worker issue as an...
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Harvest of Shame - Wikipedia  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. It was Murrow's final documentary for the network; he left CBS at the end of ... We hoped that the pictures of how these people live and work would shock...
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Migrant Workers and America's Harvest of Shame - Common Dreams  Aug 2, 2013 ... ... R. Murrow titled his 1960 CBS documentary Harvest of Shame on the ... from these farm Districts have done to improve the plight of migrant...
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The UFW Gets Back to Its Roots - latimes  Feb 17, 1996 ... Cesar Chavez, the union's deceased founder and patron saint, ... Rodriguez has turned the once-dying UFW into a bright light of the struggling ... Said Richard Trumka, former head of the United Mine Workers of America: "Arturo has put his ... In 1966, he led the new United Farm Workers on a march up the...
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The Dust Bowl Migration: Poverty Stories, Race Stories  American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California (New York: ... Winner of the 2006 Philip Taft Labor History Book Prize. "Dust Bowl Legacies: The Okie Impact on California 1939-1989" California History (Fall 1989) .... and sympathies that Dorothea Lange and John Steinbeck had helped to create.
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History of Labor in Hawai'i - University of Hawaii  The native workers could now return home where many found only famine and death. ... to work under contract for pay at the kind of labor that the missionaries and merchants and, ... There was a demand for fresh fruit, cattle, white potatoes and sugar. ..... They were C. Brewer, Castle & Cooke, Alexander and Baldwin, Theo.
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Wigand: 60 Minutes' most famous whistleblower - CBS News  Feb 4, 2016 ... Twenty years after its interview with Big Tobacco insider Jeffrey Wigand almost ... That's what Jeffrey Wigand, former director of research for Brown ... temporarily quashed by CBS corporate executives, finally aired -- 20 years ago today. .... find fame until his fifties -- thanks to the hit show "Breaking Bad.
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The Grapes of Wrath: a Study Guide - Cummings Study Guides  Oscar-Winning Film ... Many reviewers praised the novel, which went on to win a 1940 Pulitzer ... it as socialist propaganda that exaggerated the problems of migrant workers, ... In Steinbeck's book, the grapes of wrath are the harvests planted by ..... The narration alternates between chapters centering on society, nature,...
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Strikers remember rain, pain and some gain | Pacific Media Workers ...  This is part 3 of our series on the San Francisco newspaper strike of 1994 ... for weeks before 2,600 workers from 11 unions at the Examiner, the Chronicle and the San Francisco Newspaper Agency walked off the job Nov. 1, 1994. .... We were at the M&M waiting when we got the word and we went out on Mission Street.
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"Mississippi Burning" murders resonate 50 years later - CBS News  Jun 20, 2014 ... ... reflect a half a century after three civil rights workers were murdered by the KKK. ... and their murders were dramatized in the 1988 movie "Mississippi Burning." ... no trace of the men and they had "disappeared from the face of the earth. ... Finally, on August 4, 1964, their bodies were found buried on the...
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Oscar Explorer  In 2004 Freeman and others formed the Grenada Relief Fund to aid people ... Frank's friend and employee, ex-boxer Eddie "Scrap Iron" Dupris narrates the story...
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JEOPARDY! Game - February 26, 2004  (18) (Video of Sarah at the Nat'l Civil Rights Museum) This exhibit recreates a famous series of these protest actions that took place in 1960 in North Carolina.
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Wigand: 60 Minutes' Most Famous Whistleblower - CBS News  Wigand was the tobacco company insider who blew the whistle on Big Tobacco ... hooked on nicotine, despite tobacco executives' public statements to the contrary. What's more, Wigand told Mike Wallace that his former colleagues knew all ... The two-part "60 Minutes" story that aired in 1996 inspired a Hollywood film ("The...
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Old days in S.F. not so good - SFGate - San Francisco Chronicle  Jul 20, 2014 ... If you think the streets are dirty now, think about old San Francisco, say just before the ... Five people were killed in a 1901 teamsters strike; 31 were killed and over 1100 ... You can still find people of a certain age in Chinatown who will tell you about ... Carl Nolte is a San Francisco Chronicle columnist.
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60 Minutes - Wikipedia  60 Minutes is an American newsmagazine television program broadcast on the CBS television ..... 60 Minutes consists of three long-form news stories, without superimposed .... Based on ratings, 60 Minutes is the most successful program in U.S. .... The incident was turned into a seven-times Oscar-nominated feature film...
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Csar Chvez Collection - San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive  32 items ... Boyle concludes his speech by chanting Viva Csar Chvez! ... Workers (UFW) and International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) march. ... all of them have signed an agreement on collective bargaining rights for agricultural workers. .... KQED News report from March 10th 1977 featuring scenes of Cesar...
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Mother Teresa a 'troubled individual' in a 'museum of poverty' - CNN ...  Sep 4, 2016 ... This is the way Jesus wants it, they'd say," Gonzalez tells us. .... As a registered charity operating in over a 100 countries, they say ... See the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize since it was first awarded in 1901. ..... Labour Organization won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1969. ..... 2016 Cable News Network.
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Complete Program Transcript . Jimmy Carter . WGBH American ...  The workers were all black, the maids who did the cooking and took care of Jimmy ... Miss Lillian had no interest in the business, and Ruth and Gloria had married. ... Chip Carter, Son: Mom was kind of disappointed to be going back to Plains. ... Dan Carter, Historian: I won't say it was a profile in full courage, but it was not an...