Harvest of Shame [SEP] original network
Harvest of Shame
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 January 1961, at John F. Kennedy's request, to become head of the United States Information Agency. 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
of people. The town was subsequently rebuilt. The area around Lake Okeechobee is fertile and farming has been an important industry.
Many migrant farmworkers from Belle Glade appeared in the 1960 television documentary, "Harvest of Shame".
Men and women still gather around 5 a.m. in the same lot you see at the beginning of "Harvest of Shame", waiting for buses to take them to the fields. The "loading ramp," as it's called, is a bleak, empty lot, surrounded by some