The Dust Bowl

Reaping the Whirlwind

E2    Nov 19, 2012    1h 58m
Black Sunday was only halfway through the decade-long crisis. The storms continued. The Great Depression still affected people. Government programs were instituted to help. Learn what FDR’s administration did to try to keep the southern Plains from becoming a North American Sahara desert. Find out why some residents finally decided they had to give up and move somewhere else and how some held on.
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Cast of Reaping the Whirlwind
  • Patricia ClarksonHazel Lucas Shaw
  • Peter CoyotePeter Coyote
  • Carolyn McCormickCaroline Henderson

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