Reaping the Whirlwind / PBS.

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 discrim...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	Infobase (Film distributor), PBS (Firm)
Language:	English
Language of the Original:	English
Language and/or Writing System:	Closed-captioned.
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : PBS, [2012]
Series:	Films on Demand. Ken Burns: The Dust Bowl.
Subjects:	Environmental protection. Environmental law. Nineteen twenties. Depressions > 1929. Environmental policy. Environmental sciences. Conservation of natural resources. World War, 1914-1918. Internet videos.
Genre:	Internet videos.
Online Access:	Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Films On Demand @ Infobase)
Physical Description:	1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 52 min., 19 sec)) : sound, color.
Format:	Electronic Video

Contents:

Dust Storm (6:52); No Man's Land (10:34); New Deal and CCC (5:05); Saving the Plains (6:14); Leaving Drought Areas (11:19); Journey to California (4:32); Reaching California (8:23); Life in the Dust Bowl (7:22); Visits to the Dust Bowl (4:44); "Okies" in California (8:25); Fresh Starts in California? (5:52); Struggling Communities (8:04); Implementing the Soil Conversation Committee's Plan (10:15); End of the Dust Bowl (6:16); Modern Irrigation (5:30); Credits: Reaping the Whirlwind (2:37); People fleeing the Dust Bowl (6:23);