6/27/2023 0 Comments Dorothy Day by Robert Coles![]() ![]() Physician and child psychiatrist Robert Coles, who had worked with these populations for many years, described with fierce clarity the medical and psychological effects of hunger. Al Clayton’s sensitive camerawork enabled the subcommittee members to see the agonizing results of insufficient food and improper diet, rendered graphically in stunted, weakened and fractured bones, dry, shrunken, and ulcerated skin, wasting muscles, and bloated legs and abdomens. The most powerful testimonies came from the authors of this profoundly disturbing and important book. At those hearings, witnesses documented examples of deprivation afflicting hundreds of thousands of American families. Senate Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty hearings on hunger in America. ![]() The work was created to complement a July 1967 U.S. ![]() Originally published in 1969, the documentary evidence of poverty and malnutrition in the American South showcased in Still Hungry in America still resonates today. ![]()
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