Evil Slums of Indiana (Surviving Extreme American Poverty)

Poverty trapped thousands of Americans in terrible slums of industrial towns and cities, immigrating to find work - but found wretched living conditions. This was not of their own making, but the indifference of well meaning society to unscrupulous landlords and unfit housing law. This documentary describes how the Poor were not an 'Other,' but people reduced to destitution by circumstances of birth, lack of opportunity or want of affordable housing.
The wealthy viewed the Poor as worthy of charity, but still considered them beyond educating - 'filthy' in manners and habits. To actually visit the slums so as to understand their struggles and barriers to change was unthinkable. At the turn of the 20th Century Albion Fellows Bacon challenged this mindset in Evansville, Indiana. You will hear conversations she had with inhabitants of slum tenements that shows how they were trying to make the best of difficult circumstances.
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[@angr3819]

We see quite well off absolutely ruined after every banksters crash. Especially young adults who thought they were set for life. I well remember the 80's in the UK. I have read about the late 20's and early 30's, and my 1920 born father told me some things. Times then were tough for his family too but at least he and his siblings had trousers, socks, shoes, jumpers and coats. Many didn't even have socks or shoes. Parents could be prosecuted for not sending them to school so they would even if ice and snow, knowing their children would be sent home as inadequately dressed but they couldn't then be prosecuted for not sending them.

[@tinygrim]

So happy for you, I was around way back when 😂❤ . I've changed my name a few times...but I am TheFoxAndTheRabbit 😊 lady. Cheers 🎉 Awesome video Fact Feast Thank you.

[@tatianaflores1926]

My Grandfather never missed a single day working deep in the coal mines in West Virginia . I have been told stories by aunts and uncles of him crawling on his hands and knees through deep snow leaving a trail of blood behind him to ensure his wife and children did not starve or freeze to death. My Mom would tell me about how my grandma would be up at the crack of dawn preparing the every morning breakfast of biscuits and gravy that they all sat around the table with pop pop to provide the only nourishment they had until supper of beans and cornbread or fried potatoes on occasion. They lived in area called coal camp where everyone was poor but took pride in keeping their children and homes clean. It was a very hard childhood but taught them all what is truly important in life. I’m glad my grandpa was able to enjoy his last 20 years in comfort considering the mines had left him with the dreaded black lung.

[@FactFeast]

Thank you for sharing your interesting story. It sounded like a very hard life of physical work.

[@jaysoncarter5093]

Damn shame that he,and, other's like him went through. Wealthy 1% bought the wealth from underneath them, and, made them mine it with slave wages. Still they support those who would keep them this way 😢.

[@patricialong5767]

I grew up poor and didn't know we were. I did go hungry for a period of time when my father had to leave home to go to a distant city for work, so I know how hunger feels. And I have been cold. I raised my son and daughter alone without support from the father. Yet I received a classic education, thanks to my parents and my strong curiousity for more education.

[@FactFeast]

Thank you for sharing.

[@jacktrotter-vm3nj]

Diligence is a person's special possession

[@margojohnston-oo5sb]

Strong....😢!

[@lindamcharie1264]

Well done you should be proud of yourself 🌿🌷🌿

[@earthminus10]

If I didn't know better I would believe this video spoke of today in America. Poverty is nothing new😢nor is the selfish abhorrent behavior of the so called "upper class". History continues to repeat because the problem was never resolved...this is a top down problem with a top down solution! Period

[@katarinatibai8396]

💯💯💯

[@jodihenni6940]

The way the poor are talked about hasnt changed a bit.

[@c.w.johnsonjr6374]

So many reasons for poverty. As a Southerner I grow tired of people blaming the South for all the nation's problems and poverty and claiming we're all poor rural folks down here. Thank you for posting this example of poverty in a northern city during the late 19th Century.

[@FactFeast]

Thank you for watching. You can find more videos about slums in Evansville, as well as New York and Washington D.C on my channel.

[@jujumulligan43]

I agree with you. Many Americans don't know that Northeners also had slaves. It's always a matter of ignorance.

[@kimdasko6952]

Interesting. I moved to No. Carolina 16 years ago and still the pawl (sic) is still thick in the air given the outcome of the civil war. The hatred of the north is so strong after all these years.

[@c.w.johnsonjr6374]

@@FactFeast I have been watching your other videos. They remind me of the Dickens audiobooks I grew up listening to. Other than your episode about children being whipped in the mill factories of England, have you come across evidence of whipping, flogging, corporal punishment and other forms of physical abuse being common place in workplaces other than plantations?

[@c.w.johnsonjr6374]

@@FactFeast I have been watching your other videos. They remind me of the Dickens audiobooks I grew up listening to. Other than your episode about children being whipped in the mill factories of England, have you come across evidence of whipping, flogging, corporal punishment and other forms of physical abuse being common place in workplaces other than plantations?

[@tylermccoy7526]

I just shared this video with my mother who said thatthe train that my grandfather drove went by this area until about the 1950s when the city cleared out the land. Nice to know something new about my grandfather who has passed away many years ago.

[@FactFeast]

It’s nice to know this history has some relevance for you and your family. Thank you for sharing!

[@beverlydiltz2604]

The world hasn't changed much since then. Still using people to do the work, yet keeping them poor.

[@WeatherMoon]

Indiana Live here. And our history is not what we always were taught.

[@tylermccoy7526]

I was born and raised in Evansville IN and enjoy these videos as I remember some of these stories from my grandparents / great grandparents

[@FactFeast]

I’m glad you find value in this history. Thank you for your comment.

[@brianoneil9662]

Spectacular video as always! I'm not pleased with KZbin's insistence at being inconsistent with notifications, but this made my Friday at least. By the by, it isn't the subject matter but the stripping away of the facade projected upon the "good old days" that makes this channel so excellent.

[@FactFeast]

Thank you very much! I’m glad you found it. I’m not sure what happens to notifications.

[@goodnight3379]

Same story generation after generation 🥺💔

[@cherylpurdue888]

Nothing has changed, still poverty today🌺

[@moondancer4660]

May God bless the poor who help the poor.

[@NPC-0013]

Also bless god for making them poor. That god works in weird ways

[@jefftatro8871]

That's usually who physically helps.

[@miapdx503]

Poor people do more for each other than all the monied people put together. We feed each other, we take each other out of the weather. We encourage each other. We know we have only each other to rely on.

[@lanacampbell-moore6686]

Happy Sunday All & Thanks FF ❤

[@FactFeast]

Thanks Lana 😊 Same to you!

[@lanacampbell-moore6686]

@@FactFeast Ty😊

[@helentart1980]

Love these films u make. Makes me so angry. People say the same thing now about the poor. I won’t donate money they’ll spend it on drugs, booze etc we look down on them. We haven’t changed. I give money to the poor tramp s in the street they can spend it however. Being homeless is my biggest fear. We haven’t changed our attitudes at all and we still have slum landlords and the lowest of society. These films are very important that u make. It’s important that we try to change.

[@christinedowie2859]

❤That was a most excellent delivery of an equally excellent speech.❤❤❤😊

[@FactFeast]

Thank you! It’s nice to know you enjoyed the narration.

[@BloodStainedTear]

slums of indiana East Chicago, Gary, Hammond, and Elkhart 😊

[@bruanlokisson8615]

Not much has changed in Evansville today, the relative relationship still exists, the history of this river town is fascinating in a macabre way, from it's founding to the present the, Dark past of "E'ville" (the local name for this place) is a true tribute to the greed and immorality of humans.

[@MegaLivingIt]

Although I have criticized Queen Victoria for lack of humanity towards her London subjects, as an American I find this neglect of our people also inexcusable. 😐

[@nelsonnoname001]

Didn't know we were leaving sunny and jolly ole England - I like it, cheers from OH - I wouldn't mind a trip over to WV for some good old coal miner despair sometime. Thank you as always sir

[@FactFeast]

Thank you! They’ll be more content about America’s past to come.

[@amydoss-andres2412]

I can give you some. Both of my grandfathers were coal miners. My maternal grandpa was 16, working in a mine in 1936 when a runaway coal car severed both of his legs. He worked at a mine in the southernmost part of Kentucky at that time. It was located just north of Jellico, TN, where he and my grandma went to school and met.

[@sunnyadams5842]

This is FASCINATING!! I So APPRECIATE the primary source material. And the pictures are priceless!!! I can FEEL the damp and pain, and the smell. AND I now have MANY NEW words and phrases (21:09 apoligia of the filthy poor.. "Their Virtues are unaccountable." ) to describe what I know about poverty. This is a BEAUTIFUL lesson in the background of our society's attitude towards the impoverished today in 2023. REMARKABLE. Thank you.

[@FactFeast]

It’s great to know you find this history of value. Thank you! There are two more videos on this topic should you be interested: The White Death (Slum Life in America) kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZrbimp4hZ2Iqbs. The other is ‘Slumming it in the Tenements,’ which is the next video to the one above on the channel page.

[@TheWhitefisher]

Thanks for more great content Fact Feast! I can't get enough! Keeps me going to my own job, which seems so much nicer now :)

[@FactFeast]

It’s great to hear that you enjoy watching. Thank you very much!

[@simplelogic9090]

As one who lives in Indiana. I can tell you things are much better now 😂😂. Great channel btw.

[@FactFeast]

Thank you! I’m glad you’re interested in the history content here.

[@garryferrington811]

I've been in West Terre Haute. It wasn't better! It made Detroit at it's worst feel warm and friendly. The police escorted my wife and I out of there...for our safety!

[@KAdams-dr4pc]

Simple Logic, What about Gary, Indiana?

[@porkscratchings5428]

Nothing has changed really……

[@111CREWGO69ZEHZ]

Great story. Too much Truth.

[@FactFeast]

Glad you found it worthwhile!

[@the.radical.sister]

Wow. You should repeat this one, once a year. It's that mighty. Thank You.

[@FactFeast]

Much appreciated.

[@chandratownsend3891]

This was an excellent listen, thank you.

[@FactFeast]

It’s great to know you found it of value. Thanks for your comment!

[@katiemarie82]

Always enjoy your videos this one I really enjoyed ty..

[@FactFeast]

Thank you so much 😊

[@katiemarie82]

@@FactFeast you are very welcome 🤗

[@MegaTrooper555]

Love the channel. I live stories and hearing them from the past is a blessing.

[@FactFeast]

Thanks for listening! Glad you're interested in the history.

[@deeppurple883]

To see how poverty affects the whole person inside and out is pitiful and sad. I know the effects, I've been in some kind of poverty all my life. A person is robbed of so much in life because of poverty. Excluded from most institutions of note. Always competing never achieving while on the back foot. That even went down to the girl's, how can you compeat with lad's that have parents who have money. I hate that poverty brings out the worst in people from rich and poor alike. Equality for all. ✌️☘️

[@ranjitverdi5702]

As always a superb channel.. history there in the making, subject matter Orwell would have understood.Injustice in society was as some people think,was Victorian, happening in just the East of London; however it was right across the pond.. Hollywood show's you a different vision.

[@FactFeast]

Yes, slums were in many places. Canada and Australia too. Thank you for your comment.

[@stevecrow3075]

Thanks for sharing this story l grew up in Evansville. Never knew any of this history. I left Indiana years ago.

[@FactFeast]

You can find more videos about Evansville on my channel (see the American Sums and Tenements playlist). Thank you for your comment.

[@KrisLapler]

If you are familiar with the term 'culture of poverty', then you will understand most of the State. Medium-tech companies won't even set up there due the lack of qualified candidates.

[@mkeolver]

And so here we are in 2023 and what has changed?

[@jasonv2323]

Govt housing, welfare, food stamps, Obama free phones, just to name a few. If anyone goes hungry these days it's by their own doing

[@Tsumami__]

@@jasonv2323Lol spoken like someone that has never had to apply for food stamps.

[@stompthedragon4010]

There but for the grace of God go I. Some could do with a dose of reality from the poor side.

[@donnadees1971]

Good Lord, poverty is degrading…so hard to look ok while so poor.

[@angr3819]

Thank you

[@FactFeast]

Thanks for your support! Much appreciated.

[@undertow2142]

Unfortunately, year by year the extreme capitalist chip away a little more at regulation and expenses like decency for the workers as we march steadily back toward this era of greatest wealth inequality.

[@tinygrim]

Thank you FF ❤

[@FactFeast]

You’re welcome. Thanks for watching!

[@mijiyoon5575]

A person can only go so far & that's it

[@LeahDyson-kq4bd]

A lot of people talk about poverty in northeast cities but a lot of other places in the nation were overall poorer

[@brandonletzko4239]

The number of people commenting "nothing has changed" or bemoaning capitalism on their electronic devices are pathetically ironic. You don't know what real poverty is.

[@lindamcharie1264]

Very interesting.. thankyou

[@FactFeast]

That’s great! Thanks for writing.

[@kingmichealthefirstofroman2278]

Imagine if we could travel back to the victorian and edwardian era

[@rorosanchez1538]

And imagine the shock these Victorian/Edwardian era people, both rich, poor, and middle class would have if they see how much the world has changed for both the better and worse.

[@kingmichealthefirstofroman2278]

@@rorosanchez1538 just remember to wear a disguise and follow the International Time Traveler’s Code (ITTC) or you can create a time rift that could end the time as we know it

[@williamkinkade2538]

No thanks!

[@Perfidious_Hollow]

Thanks!

[@FactFeast]

My pleasure. Thank you too!

[@Gailafathersjoy]

Thank you.

[@FactFeast]

You're welcome! Thank you for watching and commenting.

[@chino3796]

It would be awesome if you added non intrusive background music of the particular era covered in the stories. Just a suggestion.

[@christianworthinton8000]

The impoverished should have realized the factories couldn't function without them. Demand top housing and a well fed diet. Sometimes People are their own worst enemies!

[@e.jenima7263]

Sad News Dud....................Little has actully changed hear in the USA since the guilded age.

[@nataanda2486]

1:06 what a photography! art pure!

[@lanawright398]

And you may wonder whos families made their fortune then 😂😂🎉

[@kimdasko6952]

Boy if there ever was a time and need for birth control.....

[@Tsumami__]

Unfortunately the people that want to ban birth control also want to ban any programs that would assist people in need, sex education, and free school lunches.

[@cristinaevans139]

You should be able to read along with the transcript,such sad photos…. And we think it’s hard for us..wow

[@trishmcl9055]

4:30 at first I thought that was a teacher with her students, but upon second look I'm thinking it's a mother with her children.

[@WLBarton4466]

Nothing's changed. For a short while, post WW2 good jobs and strong Unions created the well paying middle class lifestyle. So what happened. The insatiable greed of the corporate elitist, taking bids from east Asian countries for the cheapest workers to build our durable goods. Washing machines, dryers, refrigerators, air conditioning and the rest of manufacturing went east, while our middle class in the U.S. went south, and not geographically speaking. So profits for the elite few skyrocketed, while working poor became the norm here. So spare me the patriotic drivel of pulling yourself up by the bootstraps. The tax burden for the militarist toys is put on the backs of laborers living on the wrong side of the tracks. Rising tide lifts all boats is the biggest pile of B.S. heaped upon ignorant workers ever. All the evils over taking the country now born out of the ME generation greed that began in 1980.

[@BoycottChinaa]

As one who has boycotted china since the 1990s, I've been supremely disappointed at the lack of interest in preserving our independence as a nation, as the labels always said, "made in china" yet were ignored by those who had the most to lose, selfishly choosing to save 3 cents instead of consider the cost of military and healthcare issues resulting from that choice (fentanyl, covid, meth).

[@maggiemae7539]

Add the unions to the drivel that you try to speak of please! Why would anyone need to pay to have a job? Do not say to pay union dues! Drivel…..

[@jasonv2323]

Nothing changed? We now have free Healthcare for the poor, food stamps, welfare, govt housing. Get out of here with that bs.

[@garryferrington811]

People voted for Reagan to start rolling back our standard of living. It's what they wanted, for some odd reason.

[@williamschlenger1518]

Thank God for FDR & social security.

[@Tsumami__]

Thank FDR and his family’s long history of being politically subversive and liberal in ideology. The Delanos started to become liberal during the civil war era, several were abolitionists. He was primed to be our greatest president, the first one that truly fought to help the people and not just the wealthy.

[@mares3841]

So sad

[@ladyhonor822]

❤❤❤ RN CCRN, Temple University Hospital 🏥 Philadelphia USA 🇺🇲☦️❤️

[@finni-h2x]

Why did they have to be dirty as well as poor.... Were they too tired from not eating to have a bath or a swim in a lake..

[@Laura-LaFauve]

Reality.

[@mijiyoon5575]

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@FactFeast]

Thanks Miji 🙂

[@DAVIDJOHNSON-pp3ke]

THIS SHOULD BE SENT AS A( BROKEN ARROW TO EVERY ONE THAT CALL THEM SELVES A HUMAN BEING). 06/28 2023 what has changed ?.

[@maureenobrien4807]

I CONCUR!!!

[@maureenobrien4807]

*Everyone on Earth should be made to work.as.a.food service.worker. In.a.uniform.and have.to.work.and.be.obsequious to the rude and.demeaning treatment of the general public -- uber-wealthy. to the roughest of working class . .When.theu experience the way people observe the "servers/servants", they will no doubt slightly perturbed, if not completely humiliated.

[@walterkersting9922]

Who has a mid Atlantic accent these days?

[@eileencorcoran3090]

Still similar today

[@metalwellington]

brutal

[@lakeembryant4290]

Somehow their descendants owe reparations

[@mickikindley7821]

Omg things don’t change do they?

[@garryferrington811]

And all this was just last week! 😂

[@fred6059]

It continues today

[@Mr100741]

Amazing isn't it how people that can barely feed themselves and who can least afford it will continue to bring Children, one after another, into a life of abject poverty. How irresponsible is that?

[@garryferrington811]

And here you approve of eradicating birth control. A real life Janus.

[@Tsumami__]

It’s almost like people who are stripped of a decent education - which includes sex education - and indoctrinated with religion that tells them to produce more children, just MIGHT end up having more kids than they can reasonably afford to take care of.

[@Tsumami__]

@@garryferrington811100%

[@Thomas-ky3rl]

Isn't it a Red state.? I don't love my enemies

[@Tsumami__]

People stuck in poverty, with no education, no assistance except for churches in their area, will eat up the garbage spewed on Fox News or right wing media in general up with a spoon. They don’t have critical thinking skills or the ability to even grasp how that kind of rhetoric is meant to dumb them down and fuel their animus towards whatever marginalized group the idiot on the screen is telling them to hate. That’s very much by design.

[@theother1406]

oh look, the ancestors of MAGA.

[@waynepetersen272]

America's industry requires a working class like this to bring back industry to the red states. The industry that went overseas requires the working poor. This is understandable to the Republican party and Maga base in the US. The woke Democrats don't understand that the industry that fled the US overseas requires the industrial base to ensure the wealthy to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Sure the working poor don't understand their needs but I'm sure that these industrial cattle learn skills because they have that advantage that is paid for by their masters. Everything here is part of the American model of industry.

[@Tsumami__]

Your extreme lack of understanding at how the working class in America is kept the working class BECAUSE of conservatives is mind boggling. Democrats are the only ones that are pushing for jobs NOT to be outsourced to overseas companies, Republican politicians are continually investing in overseas markets to put money in their own pockets, voting against anything like federal disaster aid, civil infrastructure improvement, social programs that would actually ASSIST those stuck in the poverty gap, and demanding higher wages - especially the minimum wage increase that would drastically improve the lives of individuals that are DENIED educational opportunities to even GET better paying “skilled” jobs to begin with. Conservatives are well aware that people in developing nations will work for FAR less than the average MINIMUM WAGE worker in America. This is why so many CEOs and CFOs that operate lucrative companies, especially those that process and export raw materials in other countries that have natural resources to exploit, VOTE REPUBLICAN. They don’t WANT to pay workers more, and they don’t give a damn about improving their lives. Providing an education, programs that assist people with more than a pamphlet inviting them to Sunday mass, and a couple hundred more damn dollars a week on their paycheck will give the working class a measure of MOBILITY and the ability to demand even better conditions and treatment. CONSERVATIVES DONT WANT THAT.

[@ChadwickTheChad]

Oops, you accidentally said woke Democrats when you were just trying to say Democrats.

[@williamschlenger1518]

If you're poor,I would suggest not having nine children.

[@brendachew3769]

i guess if you're deaf, you can't watch it, as there isn't any dialogue to go with it to read. shame.

[@joyful_tanya]

Close captions autogenerated in English, works for me.

[@lorirogers9304]

Try again

[@brendachew3769]

@@joyful_tanya wasn't available

[@rubenacosta983]

Hit the 'subtitles cc/turn on on the top/right hand section of the screen and it will turn on the captions, GODBLESS

[@joycekastamonitis2187]

@@rubenacosta983 thanks

[@phaecops]

Ha ha ha. What a primitive propaganda piece.

[@kathyahlberg8858]

Slums are being recreated thanks to 40 years of RR's 'trickle down economics BS." Roosevelt's New Deal created a vibrant middle class that is currently being destroyed thanks to the increasing ownership of US by giant corporations. (Who are NOT people!)

[@colleenlally-ross7105]

Thanks!

[@FactFeast]

Thank you very much!! I’m glad you found this worthwhile.

[@colleenlally-ross7105]

Its a subject I've been reading about since upton Sinclair's book!! Thank you for your excellent work in a heartbreaking subject 🥺