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The Dust Bowl
Relief
Social worker Dorothy Williamson describes her experiences talking with victims of the Dust Bowl. What help there was came from Washington, D.C., with programs such as the CCC, NYA, or WPA.
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The storms and the Great Depression continued.
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The southern Plains were rapidly turned from grasslands to wheat fields.