THE DUST BOWL

Black Sunday

• The Black Sunday dust storm covered eastern Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.
• On Black Sunday all the dust blocked the sun
• The storm hit Rolla, Kansas around 4:00 PM.
• People called the storms black blizzards.

WHERE REFUGES WENT AND WHAT THEY HAD

• Refuges went to California
• They couldn't get food other than what they had
• Shabby buildings made up migrant camps in California
• Some people could grow food
• Most family's in the Great Plains live in dug outs

HOW IS STARTED

• In the 1930's a terrible drought hit
• After WWI farmers had planted so much that the ground was very dry

RANDOM FACTS

• Dust cover over a 100 million acres
• People thought it was the end of the world
• In 1994, the Soil Conservation Service was renamed the Natural Resources Conservation Service
• Dust from the plains blackened the sky in Washington, D.C.,
• before blowing hundreds of miles out over the Atlantic Ocean

SOURCES

• Lassieur, Allison. The Dust Bowl : an interactive history adventure. Mankato, Minn.: Capstone Press, 2009. Print.
• McArthur, Debra. The dust bowl and the Depression in American history. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 2002. Print.
• Porter, Alex, and Kristin Lewis. "The Dust Bowl." Scholastic Scope. 12 Mar. 2012: 4-9. SIRS Discoverer. Web. 13 Feb. 2014.
• Roop, Peter. "Covered in Dust." Cobblestone. Mar. 2012: 26-28. SIRS Discoverer. Web. 13 Feb. 2014.
• Salmon, M.H. "Dust Bowl Revisited." New Mexico Magazine. Jan. 2001: 42-46. SIRS Discoverer. Web. 13 Feb. 2014.