#Bales2025FilmChallenge of April 14: the #GreatDepression

Drylanders [Un autre pays] (Don Haldane, 1962)

A man who returns from the Boer War decides to become a wheat farmer, but – like so many others in North America – falls victim to the #DustBowl.

https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-p7v6

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Today in Labor History April 14, 1935: The Black Sunday dust storm swept across the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles. This was one of the worst storms of the Dust Bowl. 4 years later, on this same date, John Steinbeck published his classic working-class novel, The Grapes of Wrath, about Dust Bowl refugees in California.

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𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬

✧ Black Sunday ✧

Black Sunday was a severe dust storm that occurred on April 14, 1935, as part of the Dust Bowl, a period of severe dust storms in the American prairies in the 1930s. The storm first hit the Oklahoma panhandle and northwestern Oklahoma, then moved south into Texas. The conditions were the most severe in the Oklahoma and Texas panh...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sunday_(storm)

"Cleanliness." Southern California. Oklahoma refugees camping in Imperial Valley, California

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https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017759584/

Colbert Hits the Trump Nail on the Head! 🤣

And quotes a classic photograph by Dorothea Lange. 🙂 💕

"Damn, These Grapes Smell Like Wrath."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJepmdxrf7Q

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Migrants' camp, California. 1935

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Depression refugee family from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Arrived in California June 1936. Mother and three half-grown children; no father...

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National Weather Service:

The Black Sunday Dust Storm of April 14, 1935

The 1930s were times of tremendous hardship on the Great Plains. Settlers dealt not only with the Great Depression, but also with years of drought that plunged an already-suffering society into an onslaught of relentless dust storms for days and months on end. They were known as dirt storms, sand storms, black blizzards, and “dusters.” It seemed as if it could get no worse, but on Sunday, the 14th of April 1935, it got worse. The day is known in history as “Black Sunday,” when a mountain of blackness swept across the High Plains and instantly turned a warm, sunny afternoon into a horrible blackness that was darker than the darkest night. Famous songs were written about it, and on the following day, the world would hear the region referred to for the first time as “The Dust Bowl.”

https://www.weather.gov/oun/events-19350414

#history #dustbowl