Hunger in America

Duration: 51

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1968

Creator: Columbia Broadcasting System

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Presents evidence that 10,000,000 Americans go to bed hungry every night from "gut hunger" accompanied by malnutrition and starvation and not simply an unsatisfied appetite for delightful or exotic foods. Visits poor people in four areas: Spanish Americans in Texas, sharecroppers in Virginia, Navajo Indians in Arizona, and Negroes in Alabama. Explores factors underlying hunger and indicts the Department of Agriculture for its inadequate programs., A study of various groups of people who go hungry in the U.S. everyday. Conditions are documented among the Mexicans in San Antonio, tenant farmers near Washington D.C., Navajo Indians in Arizona and black sharecroppers in Alabama.

Complete Record: Presents evidence that 10,000,000 Americans go to bed hungry every night from "gut hunger" accompanied by malnutrition and starvation and not simply an unsatisfied appetite for delightful or exotic foods. Visits poor people in four areas: Spanish Americans in Texas, sharecroppers in Virginia, Navajo Indians in Arizona, and Negroes in Alabama. Explores factors underlying hunger and indicts the Department of Agriculture for its inadequate programs., A researched study of hunger and malnutrition in the United States, showing views of Black sharecroppers in Alabama, Navajo Indians in Arizona, starving tenant farmers near Washington, D. C., and impoverished Mexican-Americans in San Antonio. Includes a discussion of surplus foods, stamps, and farm subsidy programs of the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. , A study of various groups of people who go hungry in the U.S. everyday. Conditions are documented among the Mexicans in San Antonio, tenant farmers near Washington D.C., Navajo Indians in Arizona and black sharecroppers in Alabama., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.