American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl

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  • In 1931 the rains stopped and the "black blizzards" began. Powerful dust storms carrying millions of tons of stinging, blinding black dirt swept across the Southern Plains--the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma, western Kansas, and the eastern portions of Colorado and New Mexico. Topsoil that had taken a thousand years per inch to build suddenly blew away in only minutes. One journalist tra
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Unlike the Joad clan of John Steinbeck's novel "The Grapes of Wrath," many families living in the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma, western Kansas, and the eastern regions of Colorado and New Mexico remained in place, determined to survive the crippling dust storms brought on by an eight-year drought lasting from 1931 to 1939. This "American Experience" film chronicles their incredible stories. 56 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English.
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