Black Sunday by Antonella Funiciello

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Charles Williams took this photo. It was sent to President Roosevelt to show just how bad the dust storm was.

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The dust storm caused severe damage to hundreds of people’s properties. This painting shows the drastic effects the storm had on people’s lives, and how much they had to recover from it.

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The map shows the wide range the dust storms covered, not just the one on Black Sunday. The areas most damaged by the storms is nearly the size of Kansas, and that is just the places that were most affected. That’s not even taking into account the places that still got damaged even if it wasn’t as bad.

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This infographic shows the growing despair of the farmers in the dust bowls. They were running out of ideas and the storms just kept getting worse and worse.

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Many homes were completely blocked in, covered in dust and dirt after the storm. If people had left the windows or doors open and didn’t close them in time, the whole house would be filled with dirt by the time the storm ended.

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The cartoon shows how the dust storm had completely taken over. Congress had no idea what to do, and any attempts they made to fix it did nothing.

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These photos show just how quickly the dust storm moved. In less than 15 minutes, it had completely blocked out the sun and turned the day into night.

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This map shows the path of the dust storm on black sunday, and just how much damage it caused. In less than a day, it had made its way across two whole states.

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Many survivors tell of their stories during the dust storm. All of their days started out wonderfully sunny and ended with disaster. For many of them, the dust had filled their houses or blocked them off.

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(Ignore the photo and just click please)This poem describes the wall of dust that occurred on Black Sunday. It captures the feeling of helplessness and despair that the people must have felt at that time.