01344nam a22002297a 4500 BJBSDDR 20260514121032.0 ta 260514s2003 nyu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780786711468 0786711469 spa BJBSDDR eng K64 2003 Kleinberg, Eliot 48439 Black cloud : the great Florida hurricane of 1928 / Eliot Kleinberg New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2003 xvi, 283 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm In September 1928, when great storms were still unnamed, nearly 700 black men, women, and children were buried in an unmarked West Palm Beach ditch following the nation's second-deadliest hurricane. The savage gusts that churned the waters of Lake Okeechobee into a maelstrom of death afflicted victims of all races and classes, and produced tales of survival and loss among whites and blacks alike. The great African-American writer Zora Neale Hurston, immortalized the havoc the storm unleashed on the great lakes denizens in her classic Their Eyes Were Watching God. The vast majority of the post-storm workers were poor black migrants; even if the hurricane was color-blind, the recovery and rebuilding effort were not lcc 0 BK cmc 127090 127090 0 0 lcc 0 0 APT BJB BJB APT 2026-05-14 0 K64 2003 00000199797 2026-05-14 12:10:51 1 2026-05-14 BK