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Douglas Hurt's The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl, written by R. Douglas Hurt explores the Dust Bowl and the effects it had on the societies who dealt with it. The Dust Bowl is a vast area stretching across the Great Plains from Oklahoma to Colorado. Hurt includes precise locations of specific dust storms that took place from the e ....
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.... dreadful “black blizzard” that hit Amarillo, Texas on April 14, 1935.
In 1936, The Resettlement Administration, an organization set up to financially aid rural farmers in poverty, sent a film crew to portray the causes and consequences of the Dust Bowl. The film was entitled The Plow that Broke the Plains. Rexford G. Tugwell dubbed the film, “America’s first documentary film.” Franklin D. Roosevelt called it a “modern tool of government.” The film was shown to congressmen, diplomats, and New Dealers on May 10, 1936 at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. The film carried terri ....
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