On April 14, 1935, the “Black Sunday Storm”, the worst dust storm of the U.S. Dust Bowl — an ecological and human disaster caused by misuse of land and years of sustained drought — occurred. Immense dust storms—such as the “Black Sunday Storm” —often reduced visibility to a few feet, as can be seen on the photograph below, courtesy of Dorothea Lange Collection 1919-1965.
Dust Bowl fringes (general rural Okla. scenes)
Another photograph from the same digital collection shows the tenant farmers displaced by the Dust Bowl in Texas.
Displaced Tenant Farmers, Goodlet, Hardeman Co., Texas
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