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Article about the Dust Bowl, 1939
| Below is an article by social worker Berea St. John Feiner (1909-2005) for the publication The Jail Evangelist. In this article, she described the consequences of the Dust Bowl (the infertility of much of the farmland in the Midwest and great Plains because of overuse) for the families of the farmers she worked with. For more on Feiner, click here. |
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