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Black Sunday alone was such a strong storm that ... But even with federal efforts underway, the Dust Bowl continued over the rest of the decade. Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother, her famous ...
The moving headlights of her husband’s truck, visible as he frantically drove back and forth along the road, eventually led her back The storm on Black Sunday was the last major dust storm of ...
While there are perhaps few Oklahomans with living memory of that consequential Sunday onApril 14th ... The perils of the Dust Bowl can be dated back to the Homestead Acts in the late 19th ...
In the weeks before Black Sunday, many schools had closed and many ... Oklahoma's Panhandle was the heart of what became known as the Dust Bowl, but drought had scorched land throughout the ...
OKLAHOMA CITY — The 90th anniversary of one of the worst days in Oklahoma history, marked as “Black Sunday” by survivors of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, was commemorated Monday at ...
An exhibit at the Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa is giving visitors a look back in time at one of the worst days in the Dust Bowl era, referred to as "Black Sunday." Black Sunday happened on Palm ...
Mechelle Moe (left) and Christopher Alvarenga in Dolores Díaz's Black Sunday at TimeLine Theatre ... We soon learn that the family lost a son to dust pneumonia during a storm and that Ma and ...
To many on that Black Sunday, April 14, 1935, it appeared to be the final blow. Dust had been piling up on the drought-stricken land for five years. The Dust Bowl, as AP reporter Robert Geiger ...
The huge Black Sunday storm — the worst storm of the decade-long Dust Bowl in the southern Plains — as it approaches Ulysses, Kansas, April 14, 1935. Daylight turned to total blackness in mid ...
The locals dubbed it Black Sunday. The next day, an Associated Press article about the storm called the region “the Dust Bowl” and the name went on to define an era. The more I listened ...