The people left behind

Duration: 0:33:00

Genre: Documentary | Educational | Social problem

Year Published: 1968

Creator: Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor | National Educational Television: Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: This is one segment of episode 108 of PBL. Depicts the plight of Mississippi ex-plantation laborers. Discusses how the cotton picking machine, minimum wage laws, and legislation which pays farmers for not cultivating their land, have eliminated unskilled jobs. Interviews some of the former plantation workers and officials.

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