The Mass Graves of South Florida | 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane
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- Опубликовано: 29 июл 2023
- On September 16, 1928, a powerful major hurricane came ashore in the Palm Beach region of South Florida. As it crossed the state diagonally, water from Lake Okeechobee was pushed into the southern communities on the front end of the hurricane and then the northern communities on the back end. This resulted in thousands of lives being lost and eventually the implementation of the Herbert Hoover Dike, which today protects cities like Belle Glade from storm surge.
In this video, we visit two mass graves where mostly black migrant workers were buried.
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Sources:
- National Weather Service: www.weather.gov/mfl/okeechobe....
- Black Cloud: The Great Hurricane of 1928 by Kleinberg, Eliot (2004)
Well done! My grandfather survived this bastard as a kid in Puerto Rico, where it was called the San Felipe hurricane. He told me the horror story of evacuees in Hatillo seeking shelter in a school that collapsed atop of them during the storm, and of below ground plants like potatoes being literally ripped out by the winds. It was a true nightmare both in PR and South Florida.
Nicely done! It’s very sad to see that those people who died from lots of bad things but thanks for sharing this video with us, to let us know what had happened in the past. Hope you have more videos to come!
I live and grew up in this area in West Palm Beach, and they just recently built this Memorial maybe a few years ago recognizing the mass burial site.. for years it's just been a field unmaintained......
My grandma’s cousin and her family (still at home) were killed in this storm. They lived near the lake’s shore. 6 were killed…parents & 4 kids (2 adult children survived)
We are planning to come down and do a vlog about this same topic, the valuejet everglades crash and some other south Florida vlogs. Thanks for doing this. Such a great video, these should not be forgotten.
I have a script still in the works for a video I wanted to make on the plane crash! Just trying to see how I can go about using old archival footage of broadcasts without getting in trouble or breaking the bank
@@JoelFrancoVlogs yeah similar to us! We hope to get down there at some point when the weather cools off. Orlando is 98 today with 114 heat index. It's brutal.
And Brightline cancelled tickets from Sept 1st thru 14th.
Great video Joel! Thank you for the time you took to do your research
Thanks for watching!
The entire event is best chronicled by Zora Neale Hurston's novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. Hurston was from Eatonville, Florida, Florida's only historically all-black town. She is the author of many great novels, short stories, and autobiographical works. She was a teacher and and anthropologist, as well; Alice Walker was responsible for getting all of her works in print, and I will posit that her work is as worthy of being placed in the canon of America's great writers as Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Djuna Barnes, three of her contemporaries.
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