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Impact of 1928 Hurricane on Everglades Migrant Workers | The Swamp

Learn how a dike built to manage water levels in Everglades swamplands for farming failed to prevent catastrophic flooding during the Okeechobee Hurricane of 1928, resulting in thousands of deaths of mostly black migrant workers, in these clips adapted from The Swamp | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE.

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PBS Learning Media

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