Free Film at the Museum: Harvest of Shame
A TV documentary that exposed the harsh and exploitative conditions faced by migrant farmworkers in the U.S. It reveals how workers—many of them families with children—endured poverty wages, unsafe housing, child labor, and constant movement while remaining excluded from basic labor protections. The film contrasts America’s agricultural abundance with the invisibility and suffering of those who harvest the nation’s food, delivering a stark moral indictment of the system that allowed it.CBS/Edward R. Murrow, 1960, 54 mins.
Lecture: Maeve Kane - A War Against Vegetables, A War Against Women: Haudenosaunee Women's Experiences of the Revolution
Maeve Kane - A War Against Vegetables, A War Against Women: Haudenosaunee Women’s Experiences of the Revolution When George Washington ordered the "total destruction and devastation" of Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) territories in 1779, the offensive was to that date the largest and most expensive campaign of the American Revolution. What became known as the Sullivan-Clinton campaign aimed squarely at the agricultural heart of Haudenosaunee women's diplomatic power, cultural status, and national identity by burning cornfields and felling orchards. Continental soldiers constructed an American identity for themselves by destroying what they called Haudenosaunee women's "homes of contentment," and despite this Haudenosaunee women preserved their nations over the course of the war. Non-members $8 - Doors open 6:30 PM
