American Experience

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Read further into the important people and events during the Dust Bowl years, and explore excerpts from some of our original interviews and people who are in the film.

People and Events

• The Great Depression
• The Drought
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• The New Deal
• The Works Progress Administration
• Black Sunday, April 14, 1935
• John McCarty, founder of The Last Man’s Club
• The Mass Exodus from the Plains
• Hugh Hammond Bennett, Father of soil conservation
• Bam White, Dust Bowl farmer

Original Interviews

• Chana Gazit, Producer
• J.R. Davison, Witness
• Imogene Glover, Witness
• Melt White, Witness
• Donald Worster, Historian