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After a man comes 35 years old unless he's a genius I don't want you. He doesn't want to. Talk Les was concerned manual labor exam. These are the sounds of poverty in the midst of the most affluent society the world has ever known. The chair you choose I used to have what I have just didn't have the money you pay. I did get my little get well Maureen you know thought I was go eat cloned pave Ranger and then yeah you know the hand grinding poverty. Yes dismal and yes hopeless no. We do sometimes like when we do have a state like that you don't live a straight a man and I mean I don't know how college students and professional volunteers are helping the poorest of our nation's poor organize to help themselves. Listening to the sounds of poverty for a special hour long programs on the station. And I haven't got no education you know how I would I could make out to write my
name on the wall my name a national buy Oh all right. But Bush education you know John I would be you know it wouldn't be no change you made. We have tried myself here years ago to do something then this could mean that we can say you know. We tried your son bobs up here. We cut. Possibly 10 years that we don't have anything to show for it except taxes despair of ignoring us frustration. Festering walls of the disease called poverty the antidote a handful of dedicated college students who are helping the poor organize to help themselves. Learn more about all the sounds of poverty. I am 77 years deep in poverty and by three standards yes she had to
have a regime KFT she had mere $20 range just Mike you don't need she writes in a college student who has never seen a poor person. I'm anxious to see what people really be like. Comparison of my ideas I now a community organizer helping the poor help themselves. You might be lucky enough the first chance you stop they will need 60 and if you join you get SIEGEL They own that just because of the first cash in terms of safety you're going to go into the next town one of those particular green zealots if you didn't the first thing you own all of them except a man in poverty a college student a community organizer. These three people are part of an educational experiment. Find out more on the south end of poverty. Right at the moment I'm kind of nervous about this whole thing but I'm really filled with excitement.
You ever had an experience like this before. No sir I haven't I haven't done much work at all with four people and I saw I don't know what to expect but I'm really looking forward to it. I hope they are the ones that are going to get it. The voice belongs to a college student. The problem how to take the student to the hundreds like him on a crit from the here and now of their lives to the grim reality of life as it is lived in the other America. Poverty and despair. My daughter was she said sometimes. Maybe you never see it in your working life it will be on for the next hour you may get in the way he say like. A woman face to face with the sharp reality of poverty and leaves and other voices comprise the saddle's of poverty for a special hour long programs on this station. Anyway it's not up if it's places you hear man you read down year kinds
should they exist but you don't think you're ever seeing the people pay five fees they pay serious fees or other fees they tell us about taxes but they don't have any protection there's no fire hydrants in the area to the police in the back you can do. There's our houses and yet they pay a serious fee just a lot of these college students are part of an educational experiment. They've just returned from a first encounter with the other America. Poverty and despair joined with them in this experiment. Follow along as they meet other students who are helping the nation's poor return to the mainstream of American life. Accompany them to urban and rural slum land and share experiences. Never to be forgotten. Don't miss the sounds of property on the station. My life's work is undecided right now you know. Five days ago this college
student has never seen a poor person or different other things. But I sort of feel that maybe I fit in here being some kind of social worker working with these people. I've gotten tremendously involved and their problems are my problems. But I think there's very good chance of going to this kind of work. And even if I never do at least I'm going to know a little bit more about poverty than I ever did before. Share with you I'm 100 like in the experience of living life in the other America of property and despair. They'll never forget it and neither will you. Don't miss the sounds of poverty you for a special hour long program. I love this station. They feel the powerful they feel their own powerlessness. They are people in poverty
far from the mainstream of American life. I learned what college students and professional volunteers are doing to help the poor help them so they don't miss the sounds of poverty for a special hour long programs of the station. I'm from middle class family. I've never met people like us very much you know. This college student is part of an educational experiment. I'm never done this before. I haven't helped with poor people either. Join him and 100 other students as they share a new experience. The experience of being poor those missed the sounds of poverty on the station. These are the cells of poverty the souls of powerlessness.
Sometimes it stays it pays it and we don't need tonight you know I don't know myself or my husband don't know what person to talk to you get a thing done the sounds of poverty for special hour long programs. Hear them out of the station. We use local sounds of poverty. They seemed like they were really me. You're going to hear anything from any new home owner. Yes yes yes you heard the sounds of poverty for special hour long programs. Don't miss them.
Series
Sounds of poverty
Episode
Promotional announcements
Producing Organization
Johnson Foundation
Contributing Organization
University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland)
AAPB ID
cpb-aacip/500-zk55kb32
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Description
Episode Description
A promotional announcement for the documentary series, "Sounds of Poverty."
Series Description
A documentary series featuring interviews with rural Appalachia residents by one hundred students from twenty-nine colleges, meeting at Action for Appalachian Youth Conference at Ripley, West Virginia. The series is hosted by Bert Cowlin.
Date
1967-10-01
Topics
Social Issues
Media type
Sound
Duration
00:09:39
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Credits
Host: Cowlin, Bert
Producing Organization: Johnson Foundation
AAPB Contributor Holdings
University of Maryland
Identifier: 67-Sp.18 (National Association of Educational Broadcasters)
Format: 1/4 inch audio tape
Duration: 00:30:00?
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Citations
Chicago: “Sounds of poverty; Promotional announcements,” 1967-10-01, University of Maryland, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed April 20, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-500-zk55kb32.
MLA: “Sounds of poverty; Promotional announcements.” 1967-10-01. University of Maryland, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. April 20, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-500-zk55kb32>.
APA: Sounds of poverty; Promotional announcements. Boston, MA: University of Maryland, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-500-zk55kb32