This chilling 1968 CBS-TV documentary shows the shocking depth of poverty and hunger among Black Americans. One of the underlying causes of that hunger is the unemployment resulting from the mechanization of cotton harvesting, which increased from two percent to eighty percent in recent years (coupled, of course, with racism). Along with distressing interviews with utterly impoverished (and hungry) people, especially in Alabama, narrator Charles Kuralt decries the fact that U.S. Department of Agriculture failed to expend hundreds of millions of dollars that were earmarked for relieving hunger. And it emphasizes that in 1968 people with little money had to pay for food stamps (now called SNAP, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). (CBS-TV; 1968; 14’1”)
30 Foods Italian Immigrants Actually Ate in 1920s Little Italy, NY
We are all aware of family traditions, but we rarely know what our ancestors ate a hundred or more years
