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Surviving the dust bowl

In 1931, the rains stopped. Soon, blinding black dirt swept across the southern plains of America. Acres of crops withered and died as over-plowing created conditions for disaster: tiny dust particles invading food, water, and the lungs of millions of animals and people alike. Less well-known than those who sought refuge in California - typified by the Joad family in John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" - were the Dust Bowlers: the people who watched as their neighbors moved on, leaving schools and churches shuttered indefinitely. Surviving the Dust Bowl, from the PBS American Experience collection, is an up-close look at those brave enough to stay behind. The film explores their ten-year plight to persevere - enduring drought, dust, disease, and death, as they battled to preserve their way of life.

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  • "In 1931, the rains stopped. Soon, blinding black dirt swept across the southern plains of America. Acres of crops withered and died as over-plowing created conditions for disaster: tiny dust particles invading food, water, and the lungs of millions of animals and people alike. Less well-known than those who sought refuge in California - typified by the Joad family in John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" - were the Dust Bowlers: the people who watched as their neighbors moved on, leaving schools and churches shuttered indefinitely. Surviving the Dust Bowl, from the PBS American Experience collection, is an up-close look at those brave enough to stay behind. The film explores their ten-year plight to persevere - enduring drought, dust, disease, and death, as they battled to preserve their way of life."@en
  • "Using archival film and photographs; interviews with witnesses; and new cinematography, this film tells the story of those who endured the near decade of drought and dust storms in the Southern Plains. The residents of the panhandles of Texas & Oklahoma, western Kansas and the eastern portions of Colorado & New Mexico faced black blizzards, static electricity, jackrabbits, dust pneumonia and near starvation from 1931 until the drought ended in 1939."
  • "The draught of 1931 brought financial and emotional ruin to thousands of families in the Southern Plains. The dust bowl was America's worst ecological disaster."@en
  • "Featuring poignant interviews with witnesses and remarkable archival film footage and photographs, this video tells the heart-wrenching story of a people who endured a series of almost Biblical scourges, from drought and famine to a plague of jackrabbits before the skies opened again in 1939."@en
  • "Documents the beginning in 1931 of the drought that swept across the plains and brought the "black blizzards". Includes interviews with witnesses and archival footage of the Dust Bowl which lasted until 1939."
  • "Features interviews with witnesses, archival film footage and photographs. Tells the story of people who endured a series of scourges, from drought and famine to a plague of jackrabbits from 1931 until the drought ended in 1939."
  • "Features interviews with witnesses and archival film footage and photographs of the Dust Bowl and its farmers."@en
  • "In 1931, the rains stopped. Soon, blinding black dirt swept across the southern plains of America. Acres of crops withered and died as over-plowing created conditions for disaster: tiny dust particles invading food, water, and the lungs of millions of animals and people alike. Less well-known than those who sought refuge in California-typified by the Joad family in John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" - were the Dust Bowlers: the people who watched as their neighbors moved on, leaving schools and churches shuttered indefinitely. Surviving the Dust Bowl, from the PBS American Experience collection, is an up-close look at those brave enough to stay behind. The film explores their ten-year plight to persevere-enduring drought, dust, disease, and death, as they battled to preserve their way of life."
  • ""Featuring poignant interviews with witnesses and remarkable archival film footage and photographs, Surviving the dust bowl tells the heart-wrenching story of people who endured a series of almost Biblical scourges, from drought and famine to a plague of jackrabbits"--Container."
  • ""Featuring poignant interviews with witnesses and remarkable archival film footage and photographs, Surviving the dust bowl tells the heart-wrenching story of people who endured a series of almost Biblical scourges, from drought and famine to a plague of jackrabbits"--Container."@en
  • "The drought of 1931 brought financial and emotional ruin to thousands of families in the Southern Plains. Dust Bowl was America's worst ecological disaster."@en
  • "The drought of 1931 brought financial and emotional ruin to thousands of families in the Southern Plains. Dust Bowl was America's worst ecological disaster."

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  • "Surviving the Dust Bowl [video] / America's history & culture #265"

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