Kleinberg, Eliot,   1956- <br/><br/>
Black cloud :   the great Florida hurricane of 1928 /  
 Great Florida hurricane of 1928 
Eliot Kleinberg 
 - New York :   Carroll & Graf Publishers,    2003 
 - xvi, 283 pages :  illustrations, maps ;   24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-269) and index. 
<br/><br/> 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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780786711468 0786711469 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Huracanes --Historia --Florida--Siglo XX 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QC 945  / K64b 2003