Ken Burns: The Dust Bowl
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[Place of publication not identified] : PBS,, [2012].
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English
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Originally released by PBS, 2012.
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Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on March 15, 2017.
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Following "Black Sunday," the crucible of dust, drought and Depression only intensifies. Many people on the southern Plains, including an itinerant songwriter named Woody Guthrie, give up and join a "migration of the defeated" to California. There they are branded as "Okies" and face vicious discrimination. Meanwhile, Caroline Henderson and her neighbors struggle to hang on to their land. Franklin Roosevelt's administration attempts to help them through New Deal programs aimed at preventing the breadbasket of America from becoming a Sahara. Survivors recount their families' desperate times, their joy at the rains' return, and the lessons learned--and sometimes forgotten--from the Dust Bowl.
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9 - 12, Academic/AP
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Streaming video file.
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Closed-captioned.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
(2012). Ken Burns: The Dust Bowl . PBS, .
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)2012. Ken Burns: The Dust Bowl. PBS.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Ken Burns: The Dust Bowl PBS, 2012.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Ken Burns: The Dust Bowl PBS, , 2012.
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