Alabama wasn't a part of the Dust Bowl, but that doesn't mean
the state didn't feel similar effects  Madison Underwood | By
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November 20, 2012 at 6:45 PM, updated November 20, 2012 at 6:46
PM tenant farmers hoeing a cotton field in Eutaw, greene county
in 1936 - Library of Congress.jpg Tenant farmers hoe a Eutaw,
Alabama cotton field in 1936. (Library of Congress)  BIRMINGHAM,
Alabama -- Ken Burns, America's foremost documentarian, has
taken on many subjects, from the Civil War, to baseball, to
jazz. Most recently, Burns trained his camera on the Dirty
Thirties, on the dust-covered Okies, and on the Great Plains
region. The result was "The Dust Bowl," a two-part, four-hour-
long series that aired on PBS Sunday and Monday.   The
documentary highlighted the struggles of farmers in Oklahoma,
Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, and the Texas panhandle in the
1930s who watched as the soil they worked and tilled dried up
and rejected them, and blew away, along wit