In this episode, Will Amos, undergraduate history major, chats with Hollie Marquess about the 1927 Mississippi River Flood. This devastating flood caused hundreds of deaths and displaced thousands from homes. Will discusses the natural disaster, Herbert Hoover’s coordination of relief efforts, and the reasons in which this flood marked the African American turn from the Republican Party.
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Selected Bibliography:
Barry, John M. Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America. New York: Touchstone, 1998.
Cobb, James C. The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Percy, William Alexander. Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter’s Son. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941.
Randolph, Ned. “River Activism, ‘Levees-Only’ and the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927,” Media and Communication 6, no. 1 (February 2018): 43-51.
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