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Black Cloud: The Great Hurricane of 1928
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Black Cloud: The Great Hurricane of 1928 Paperback - 2004

by Eliot Kleinberg

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The great hurricane of 1928 claimed 2,500 lives, and the long-forgotten story of the casualties, as told in Black Cloud, continues to stir passion. Among the dead were 700 black Floridians--men, women, and children who were buried in an unmarked West Palm Beach ditch during a racist recovery and rebuilding effort that conscripted the labor of blacks as latter-day slaves. Palm Beach Post reporter Eliot Kleinberg has penned the gripping and tragic tale of 1928's killer hurricane from dozens of interviews with survivors, diary entries, accounts from newspapers, government documents, and reports from the National Weather Service and the Red Cross. Immortalized in Zora Neale Hurston's classic Their Eyes Were Watching God, thousands of poor blacks had nowhere to run when the waters of Lake Okeechobee rose. No one spoke for them, no one stood up for them, and no one could save them. With historical photographs and heroic tales of survival and loss, this book finally gives the dead the dignity they deserve.

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At 3 A.M. on a February day in 1919, a young soldier stepped off a train, still in his doughboy's uniform.

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  • Title Black Cloud: The Great Hurricane of 1928
  • Author Eliot Kleinberg
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books (AZ), New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date July 7, 2004
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780786713868 / 0786713860
  • Weight 0.94 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.02 x 6 x 0.84 in (22.91 x 15.24 x 2.13 cm)
  • Category History - U.S.
  • Library of Congress subjects Hurricanes - Florida - History - 20th century
  • Dewey Decimal Code 324.973

About the author

Eliot Kleinberg, a Florida native, has written or contributed to six books, all of them focusing on Florida and Florida's history. The lead hurricane reporter and history writer for the Palm Beach Post--which was the newspaper of record when the 1928 storm struck--Kleinberg obtained unrivaled knowledge of the hurricane's story and unique access to historical, meteorological, and personal sources. He is a member of the Florida, South Florida, and Palm Beach County historical societies. He lives in Boca Raton with his wife and two sons.

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