Reaping the Whirlwind
Description
Following "Black Sunday," the crucible of dust, drought and Depression only intensifies. Many people on the southern Plains, including an itinerant songwriter named Woody Guthrie, give up and join a "migration of the defeated" to California. There they are branded as "Okies" and face vicious discrimination. Meanwhile, Caroline Henderson and her neighbors struggle to hang on to their land. Franklin Roosevelt's administration attempts to help them through New Deal programs aimed at preventing the breadbasket of America from becoming a Sahara. Survivors recount their families' desperate times, their joy at the rains' return, and the lessons learned--and sometimes forgotten--from the Dust Bowl.
Runtime
1 hr 52 min 19 sec
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Subjects
- Environmental law (139)
- Depressions (343)
- Nineteen twenties (142)
- Environmental protection (361)
- Conservation of natural resources (540)
- World War, 1914-1918 (326)
- Environmental policy (316)
- Environmental sciences (779)
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