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Government Reform Programs

Season 1 | 5m 16s

By 1937, the Dust Bowl farmers are asking for government help in regulating the land by forcing other farmers to take better care of their soil. They even consider declaring martial law. For many farmers who had previously demonstrated independence and suspicion of government, this is a substantial ideological turnaround.

Funding is provided by Bank of America, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, National Endowment for the Humanities, The Rockefeller Foundation, Wallace Genetic Foundation and members of The Better Angels Society, including the Dana A. Hamel Family Charitable Trust and Robert and Beverly Grappone.
Extras
Experience the conservation efforts to bring farms back to life
The storms and the Great Depression continued.
Ken Burns, Dayton Duncan, Julie Dunfey and Susan Shumaker talk about making The Dust Bowl.
The Dust Bowl chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history
With the dust storms, midday turned into midnight.
Those caught in the dust thought the end of the world was upon them.
The dust storms were so severe they could suffocate those trapped out of doors.
Feel the full force of the worst manmade environmental disaster in America’s history.
Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan discuss making The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl was the worst man made ecological disaster in American History.
The storms and the Great Depression continued.
The southern Plains were rapidly turned from grasslands to wheat fields.