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Title: Black Cloud

Subtitle: The Deadly Hurricane of 1928

Author: Eliot Kleinberg

Narrator: Lee Ann Howlett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-07-17

Publisher: Eliot Kleinberg

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 18 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

The deadly hurricane of 1928 claimed 2500 lives, and the long-forgotten story of the casualties, as told in Black Cloud, continues to stir passion. Among the dead were 700 black Floridian 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 much like latter-day slaves. Palm Beach Post reporter Eliot Kleinberg has penned this gripping tale 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 heroic tales of survival and loss, this book finally gives the dead the dignity they deserve. The new, updated edition of this important book is published by the Florida Historical Society Press.

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