The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression

(Left photo) Dust storm consuming a church on Black Sunday in Ulysses, Kansas courtesy of Historic Adobe Museum, 1935, via National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington DC. (Right photo) Cimarron County, Oklahoma farmer raising fence posts due to sand drifting following a dust storm by Arthur Rothstein, 1936, via Library of Congress, Washington DC. Article by Amy Hayes, BA History w/ English minor. The Collector – November 28, 2023.

The Great Plains suffered a series of dust storms throughout the 1930s due to a severe drought that turned the region into a Dust Bowl.

The 1930s Dust Bowl era was one of the most devastating periods in American history, as millions of people in the Great Plains region were affected by a series of dust storms triggered by a long drought. The American people were already struggling due to […]

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