Harvest of Shame, a film narrated and produced by Edward Murrow, will be the eighth and final installment of the film series on immigration Tuesday, April 24, at 7 p.m. at the Auburn Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, located at 540 E. Thach Ave. Victor Villanueva, professor and head of Auburn's English department, will lead discussion.
Harvest of Shame is among the most
famous television documentaries of all time. This 1960 expose on the plight of
migrant workers resonated deeply for a nation unfamiliar with such brutally
honest depictions of living conditions that as Murrow remarks, “wrong the
dignity of man.”
The event is sponsored by the Auburn University Latin American Studies Center for Community Connections, the College of Liberal Arts Global Citizenship Project, the departments of Foreign Languages and Literatures, English and Political Science, as well as AUUF and the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts.
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