Session #87 · 1961–63

Speech #870005565

There are days when beans are not ready for harvest and thats 1 more day with no income. Ed King. a crew leader. hauled his workers to this camp at Powells Landing. Va.. where they worked 5 weeks pulling corn and picking beans. And when the fields have been stripped in North Carolina and Virginia the trucks and buses again move north. This is Little Creek Ferry outside of Norfolk. Twenty thousand migrants are ferried to the fertile fields of the Virginia Cape and the eastern shores of Maryland and Delaware for beans. tomatoes. asparagus and potatoes. For one crew hardship was climaxed by disaster. the death of a migrant.
Keywords matched
migrant migrants

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Victim Humanitarian

Speaker & context

Speaker
CHESTER MERROW
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
NH
Gender
M
Date
—
Speech ID
870005565
Paragraph
#0
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