“Black Sunday, April 14, 1935 - The Dust Bowl” (DBS-2023-11-04-063i)

From the Human Events Collection by Glenn Kelly

“The Dust Bowl Series”

Not all farm life is tranquil and productive. The Dust Bowl was the result of a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. The phenomenon was caused by a combination of natural factors (severe drought) and human-made factors: a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion, most notably the destruction of the natural topsoil by settlers in the region. The drought came in three waves: 1934, 1936, and 1939–1940, but some regions of the High Plains experienced drought conditions for as long as eight years.

One such event was Black Sunday April 14, 1935. The dust storm that turned day into night on an Oklahoma farm. Many believed the world was coming to an end. Even worse, the depression years added to the misery.

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