1930s in America #1

I’m going to talk about the Dust Bowl in the 1930s. For eight years dust blew on the southern plains. It carried in clouds storms for hundreds of miles. It came in a yellowish-brown haze from the South and in rolling walls of black from the North. The simplest acts of life breathing, eating a meal, taking a walk were no longer simple. Children wore dust masks to and from school, women hung wet sheets over windows in a futile attempt to stop the dirt, farmers watched helplessly as their crops blew away. It last for about a decade. Poor agricultural practices and years of sustained drought caused the Dust Bowl. Plains grasslands had been deeply plowed and planted to wheat. During the years when there was adequate rainfall, the land produced bountiful crops.

The Dust Bowl got his name after Black Sunday, April 14, 1935. More and more dust had been blowing up to that day. The Dust Bowl had estimates of over 7,000 left dead from dust pneumonia and other dust related deaths. 2.5million left homeless, or forced to migrate. Those who lived through this hell on earth were Dust Bowl Tough.

Dust Bowl- http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/water_02.html
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/depression/dustbowl.htm
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/div/ocp/drought/dust_storms.shtml

I agree with you about how the music is different from back then to now. Nice Post! to Jennifer