:Belle Glade, Florida

File:African American migratory workers by a 'juke joint'. Belle Glade, Florida, February 1941.jpg in Belle Glade, 1941. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott.]]

The Belle Glade or Okeechobee culture was an archaeological culture that extended around Lake Okeechobee and included the lower Kissimmee River valley. It existed from as early as 1000 BCE until about 1700 CE. The culture is named for the Belle Glade site, which was excavated in the mid-1930s as part of a Civil Works Administration project. The Belle Glade site included a midden and a burial mound.{{Cite book |last=Milanich |first=Jerald T. |title= Archaeology of Precolumbian Florida |year=1994 |publisher= University press of Florida |location= Gainesville, FL |pages=279–283, 290–297 |isbn=0-8130-1273-2}}{{Cite journal |last=Setzler |first=F. M. |last2=Strong |first2=W. D. |date=Winter 1936 |title=Archaeology and Relief |journal=The American Scholar |volume=5 |issue=1 |pages=109–117 |jstor=41206419}}

The town of Belle Glade was founded during the Florida land boom of the 1920s.{{cite web

|url=http://www.oberlin.edu/library/papers/honorshistory/2001-Gorman/jookjoints/belleglade/introtobelleglade.html

|title=Introduction to Belle Glade|publisher=www.oberlin.edu|access-date=2008-06-08|last=Gorman|first=Juliet| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080514124634/http://www.oberlin.edu/library/papers/honorshistory/2001-Gorman/jookjoints/belleglade/introtobelleglade.html| archive-date= 14 May 2008 | url-status= live}}

During that period, there were a series of efforts made to put in place drainage systems to reclaim dry land from the Everglades, including land around Lake Okeechobee. It was hoped that the reclaimed acreage could be put to better use, including agriculture. In 1921 the Florida legislature established an agricultural research station at Belle Glade to study methods of growing crops on reclaimed Everglades land. At that time, there were already 16 settlements on and around Lake Okeechobee, inhabited by around 2,000 people.{{cite book |last1=Tebeau |first1=Charleton W. |title=A History of Florida |date=1971 |publisher=University of Miami Press |location=Coral Gables, Florida |isbn=0-87024-303-9 |pages=348–351 |edition=revised 1980}}

A settlement, originally named Hillsboro, was built at what is now Belle Glade in 1925.{{cite web |title=Belle Glade |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Belle-Glade |website=Britannica.com |access-date=30 April 2022}} In 1926 the Florida East Coast Railway extended its system to Belle Glade, which helped the town's development.{{cite book |title=Tebeau op cit |page=351}}{{cite web |last1=Monmaney |first1=Terence |title=The Strange Beauty at the Edge of the Everglades |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/edge-everglades-belle-glade-photography-180977940/ |website=Smithsonian Magazine |access-date=20 April 2022}}

A powerful hurricane struck the area on September 16, 1928. The storm winds caused Lake Okeechobee to overflow its banks, inundating towns around the lake and causing widespread damage in Belle Glade. According to figures compiled by the Florida Department of Health, the storm killed 611 people in Belle Glade alone, and a total of over 1,800 statewide. Contemporary accounts stated that most of the dead were Black migrant farmworkers, a "large percentage" of whom were believed to be from the Bahamas.{{cite book |last1=Kleinberg |first1=Elliot |title=Black Cloud: The Great Florida Hurricane of 1928 |date=September 16, 2023 |publisher=Carroll & Graf |location=New York |isbn=978-0-7867-1146-8 |pages=98–99, 213, 243–244}} Belle Glade was rebuilt, and a large dike was erected to protect towns around the lake from storm-driven overflows.

German prisoners of war were confined in camps located at Belle Glade and nearby Clewiston during World War II.{{cite news |last1=Kleinberg |first1=Eliot |title=Florida history: German prisoners of war – the enemy in our midst |publisher=The Palm Beach Post |date=January 2, 2022}}

In the early 1980s, researchers began to notice a large number of people with AIDS in Belle Glade. The disease had first been identified by doctors in New York and California in 1981, and it was largely associated with communities of gay men in and around large cities. In Belle Glade, however, people with AIDS mainly identified as heterosexual, and around half were women. Some researchers, and notably Dr. Mark Whiteside and Dr. Carolyn MacLeod of the Institute of Tropical Medicine, in Miami, hypothesized that AIDS in Belle Glade might be connected to poverty and poor living conditions in the city's "colored town," where many people diagnosed with the disease also lived. Their theory, along with the very high per capita AIDS rate in Belle Glade, brought notoriety to the town as the "AIDS capital of the world." Whiteside and MacLeod's theory turned out to be incorrect, but subsequent research conducted in Belle Glade shaped scientific knowledge about the transmission of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, through heterosexual sex.{{Cite book |last=Royles |first=Dan |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1176467984 |title=To make the wounded whole : the African American struggle against HIV/AIDS |date=2020 |isbn=978-1-4696-5952-7 |location=Chapel Hill |oclc=1176467984}}

Today, the area around Lake Okeechobee is fertile and farming is an important industry. Sugar cane and vegetables are grown.{{cite news |title="Black Gold" Keeps Local Farmers Rooted Around Belle Glade; Belle Glade's Black Soil Is Among Richest In Country |url=https://www.wpbf.com/article/black-gold-keeps-local-farmers-rooted-in-belle-glade/1302829 |access-date=30 April 2022 |agency=WPBF25 |publisher=ABC News |date=October 4, 2009}}

Migrant farmworkers are an important part of the labor force. Belle Glade received national attention when a 1960 CBS television documentary, Harvest of Shame, graphically depicted the local migrant farmerworkers' daily existence and working conditions.{{cite book |title=Kleinberg op cit. p. 216}}{{cite book |title=Monmaney op cit}}

Men and women still gather around 5 a.m. in the same lot you see at the beginning of Harvest of Shame, waiting for buses to take them to the fields. The "loading ramp," as it's called, is a bleak, empty lot, surrounded by some small buildings with bars on the windows and a boarded up storefront.{{Cite web

| title = In Confronting Poverty, 'Harvest Of Shame' Reaped Praise And Criticism

| work = NPR

| access-date = 2014-05-31

| url = https://www.npr.org/2014/05/31/317364146/in-confronting-poverty-harvest-of-shame-reaped-praise-and-criticism

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As of May 2014 the city has plans "to demolish the loading ramp and turn it into a park."

The town is known for its football tradition, and together with nearby Pahokee has "sent at least 60 players to the National Football League".{{cite news

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|url=https://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2013/02/02/opinion/sunday/20120203_EXPOSURES.html

|title=Muck City. Way Out.

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|date=February 2, 2012

|access-date=February 6, 2018}}

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of {{convert|4.7|sqmi|km2}}, of which {{convert|4.7|sqmi|km2}} are land and 0.21% is water.

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As of the 2020 United States census, there were 16,698 people, 6,324 households, and 4,052 families residing in the city.{{Cite web|title=S1101 HOUSEHOLDS AND FAMILIES - 2020: Belle Glade city, Florida|url=https://data.census.gov/table?q=Belle+Glade+city;+Florida+&tid=ACSST5Y2020.S1101|website=United States Census Bureau}}

As of the 2010 United States census, there were 17,467 people, 5,832 households, and 3,879 families residing in the city.{{Cite web|title=S1101 HOUSEHOLDS AND FAMILIES - 2010: Belle Glade city, Florida|url=https://data.census.gov/table?q=Belle+Glade+city;+Florida+&tid=ACSST5Y2010.S1101|website=United States Census Bureau}}

In 2000, 39.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 40.9% were married couples living together, 22.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.3% were non-families. 23.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 6.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.04 and the average family size was 3.62.

In 2000, the population was spread out, with 33.5% under the age of 18, 10.0% from 18 to 24, 27.1% from 25 to 44, 20.7% from 45 to 64, and 8.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 30 years. For every 100 females, there were 103.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 102.6 males.

In 2000, the median income for a household in the city was $22,715, and the median income for a family was $26,756. Males had a median income of $26,232 versus $21,410 for females. The per capita income for the city was $11,159. About 28.5% of families and 32.9% of the population were below the poverty line, including 41.1% of those under age 18 and 21.4% of those age 65 or over.

As of 2000, speakers of English as a first language accounted for 61.03% of all residents, while Spanish as a mother tongue consisted of 26.87%, Haitian Creole comprised 11.00%, and French made up 1.07% of the population.{{cite web |url=http://www.mla.org/map_data_results&state_id=12&county_id=&mode=&zip=&place_id=5200&cty_id=&ll=&a=&ea=&order=r |title=MLA Data Center Results of Belle Glade, FL |publisher=Modern Language Association |access-date=2007-11-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012085608/http://www.mla.org/map_data_results |archive-date=October 12, 2007 |url-status=dead }}

As of 2000, Belle Glade had the tenth highest percentage of Haitian residents in the United States, at 11.50% of the populace.{{cite web |url=http://www.epodunk.com/ancestry/Haitian.html |title=Ancestry Map of Haitian Communities |publisher=Epodunk.com |access-date=2007-11-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071211040923/http://www.epodunk.com/ancestry/Haitian.html |archive-date=11 December 2007 |url-status=dead }} It also had the sixtieth highest percentage of Cuban residents nationally, at 5.98% of the population.{{cite web |url=http://www.epodunk.com/ancestry/Cuban.html |title=Ancestry Map of Cuban Communities |publisher=Epodunk.com |access-date=2007-11-12| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071107090527/http://www.epodunk.com/ancestry/Cuban.html| archive-date= 7 November 2007 | url-status= live}}

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File:Belle Glade Industrial Park.jpg

The cane sugar mill of the "Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative" (SCGC) is located at Belle Glade. During the crop season the factory employs 550 people.{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20121207021121/http://www.scgc.org/release10.pdf press release of SCGC, added 2011-04-24]}}

As of Feb. 2013, the official unemployment rate was about 15%; however, the town's mayor suggested the actual unemployment rate was closer to 40%. The number of jobs available locally dropped as local agriculture shifted from vegetables to sugarcane, a more highly mechanized crop.

The United States Postal Service operates the Belle Glade Post Office."[http://usps.whitepages.com/service/post_office/belle-glade-1340-nw-avenue-l-belle-glade-fl-1354504 Post Office™ Location - BELLE GLADE] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120902223322/http://usps.whitepages.com/service/post_office/belle-glade-1340-nw-avenue-l-belle-glade-fl-1354504 |date=2012-09-02 }}." United States Postal Service. Retrieved on August 26, 2011.

The Florida Department of Corrections operated the Glades Correctional Institution in an unincorporated area in Palm Beach County near Belle Glade."[http://www.dc.state.fl.us/facilities/region4/406.html Glades Correctional Institution] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110926231733/http://www.dc.state.fl.us/facilities/region4/406.html |date=2011-09-26 }}." Florida Department of Corrections. Retrieved on August 26, 2011. It was founded in 1932, employed about 350, had a capacity of 918 inmates and was scheduled for closure in December 2011.Kam, Dara, and Jennifer Sorentrue, [http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/state-regional/rep-bernard-state-prisons-chief-says-glades-prison/nLyBS/ "Rep. Bernard: State prisons chief says Glades prison will close Dec. 1"], Palm Beach Post, September 21, 2011.

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The Lake Okeechobee Scenic Trail runs through Belle Glade.

School District of Palm Beach County operates public schools.

• Gove Elementary
• Belle Glade Elementary
• Glade View Elementary
• Pioneer Park Elementary
• Sellew Belle Glade Excel Charter School

• Lake Shore Middle School

• Glades Central High School

• Glades Day School
• Lakeside Academy

• Palm Beach State College – Belle Glade Campus

• Reidel Anthony, former NFL wide receiver, Tampa Bay Buccaneers{{cite web| url= http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=ANTHOREI01| title= Reidel Anthony Past Stats, Statistics, History, and Awards - databaseFootball.com| work= databasefootball.com| quote= High School: Glades Central (Belle Glade, FL)| access-date= April 24, 2011| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110528170827/http://databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=ANTHOREI01| archive-date= 28 May 2011| url-status= usurped}}
• Brad Banks, CFL quarterback, Winnipeg Blue Bombers; 2002 Heisman Trophy first runner-up for the University of Iowa{{cite web|url=http://www.hawkeyesports.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/banks_brad00.html |title=Player Bio: Brad Banks :: Football |work=hawkeyesports.com |access-date=April 24, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101125074209/http://www.hawkeyesports.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/banks_brad00.html |archive-date=November 25, 2010 }}
• Kelvin Benjamin, NFL wide receiver
• Travis Benjamin, NFL wide receiver and punt returner
• Rashaad Duncan, Former NFL Defensive Tackle for Tampa Bay, Buffalo Bills, Washington Redskins
• Jessie Hester, former NFL wide receiver, Los Angeles Raiders, Atlanta Falcons, Indianapolis Colts and Los Angeles/St. Louis Rams{{cite web |url= http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=HESTEJES01 |title= Jessie Hester Past Stats, Statistics, History, and Awards - databaseFootball.com |work= databasefootball.com |access-date= April 24, 2011 |url-status= usurped |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20111119092833/http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=HESTEJES01 |archive-date= November 19, 2011 }}
• Santonio Holmes, NFL wide receiver, Pittsburgh Steelers, New York Jets, and Chicago Bears; Super Bowl XLIII MVP{{cite web| url= http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=HOLMESAN01| title= Santonio Holmes Past Stats, Statistics, History, and Awards - databaseFootball.com| work= databasefootball.com| access-date= April 24, 2011| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110519061923/http://databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=HOLMESAN01| archive-date= 19 May 2011| url-status= usurped}}
• James Lee, NFL offensive lineman, Tampa Bay Buccaneers{{cite web |url= http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=LeeJam02 |title= James Lee Past Stats, Statistics, History, and Awards - databaseFootball.com |work= databasefootball.com |access-date= April 24, 2011 |url-status= usurped |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20111123012336/http://databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=LeeJam02 |archive-date= November 23, 2011 }}
• Barkevious Mingo, NFL linebacker, Arizona Cardinals{{cite web |last1=Frank |first1=Vincent |title=Barkevious Mingo: 5 Things You Need to Know About the LSU Linebacker |url=https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1602625-barkevious-mingo-5-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-lsu-linebacker |website=Bleacher Report |access-date=27 April 2021}}
• Jimmy Moreland, NFL cornerback, Washington Football Team{{cite web |last1=Elman |first1=Jake |title=2019 NFL Draft: Royal Palm Beach High's Jimmy Moreland making most of second chance |url=https://www.palmbeachpost.com/sports/20190422/2019-nfl-draft-royal-palm-beach-highs-jimmy-moreland-making-most-of-second-chance |website=palmbeachpost.com |access-date=19 May 2019}}
• Louis Oliver, former NFL safety, Miami Dolphins and Cincinnati Bengals{{cite web |url= http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=OLIVELOU01 |title= Louis Oliver Past Stats, Statistics, History, and Awards - databaseFootball.com |work= databasefootball.com |access-date= April 24, 2011 |url-status= usurped |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110610100548/http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=OLIVELOU01 |archive-date= June 10, 2011 }}
• Fred Taylor, former NFL running back, Jacksonville Jaguars{{cite web| url= http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=TAYLOFRE01| title= Fred Taylor Past Stats, Statistics, History, and Awards - databaseFootball.com| work= databasefootball.com| quote= High School: Glades Central (Belle Glade, FL)| access-date= April 24, 2011| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110528151626/http://databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=TAYLOFRE01| archive-date= 28 May 2011| url-status= usurped}}
• Deonte Thompson, NFL wide receiver
• Andre Waters, former NFL safety, Philadelphia Eagles and Arizona Cardinals{{cite web|url=http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=WATERAND01|title=Andre Waters Past Stats, Statistics, History, and Awards - databaseFootball.com|work=databasefootball.com|access-date=April 24, 2011|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111121183837/http://databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=WATERAND01|archive-date=November 21, 2011}}
• Rhondy Weston, former NFL defensive lineman for the Dallas Cowboys, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Cleveland Browns{{cite web|url=http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=WESTORHO01|title=Rhondy Weston Past Stats, Statistics, History, and Awards - databaseFootball.com|work=databasefootball.com|access-date=June 3, 2014|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150420124708/http://databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=WESTORHO01|archive-date=April 20, 2015}}

In CBS Reports' 1960 program Harvest of Shame, Belle Glade plays a prominent role as a source of migrant agricultural labor.

The final scenes of the crime novel Pretty Little Things by Jilliane Hoffman take place in a sugarcane plantation near Belle Glade.

The high school football culture of Belle Glade is the subject of the non-fiction book, Muck City: Winning and Losing in Football's Forgotten Town by author Bryan Mealer.

The psychedelic pop band of Montreal released a track titled, "Belle Glade Missionaries" on their 2013 album, Lousy with Sylvianbriar.

In Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, characters Janie and Tea Cake join other African American migrant workers in picking beans in Belle Glade.

The refinery scenes from Empire of the Ants (1977) were shot in Belle Glade.Fontenay, Blake (June 24, 2022). [https://www.tcpalm.com/story/opinion/2022/06/24/giant-ants-joan-collins-made-movie-milestone-our-area-opinion/7699174001/ "When giant ants invaded the Treasure Coast: A quirkier moment in local history"]. Treasure Coast Newspapers.

• Eagle Academy (Belle Glade)

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| publisher = Crown Archetype

| isbn = 9780307888624

| last = Mealer

| first = Bryan

| title = Muck city: winning and losing in football's forgotten town

| location = New York

| date = 2012

| url-access = registration

| url = https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780307888624

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• {{Official website|https://www.bellegladegov.com/}}
• [https://www.bellegladechamber.com/ Chamber of Commerce]

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