The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 displaced over 700,000 people across Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi, with more than 100,000 homes destroyed and at least 250 lives lost. The federal government, under #CalvinCoolidge, refused direct intervention, assigning future president #HerbertHoover to manage relief through the American Red Cross. The military—Coast Guard, Army, and Navy—herded evacuees into makeshift refugee camps, which were segregated by race in line with Jim Crow laws. In the Mi

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1927 Flood: They Held 13,000 Black Workers at Gunpoint The horrifying truth about the 1927 Mississippi River Flood and racial injustice. While this was America's worst natural disaster—27,000 square miles flooded, 700,000 homeless—white plantation owners in Greenville, Mississippi made it worse through deliberate racism. They evacuated white residents but forced 13,000 African American sharecroppers onto levees at gunpoint, keeping them as "almost slave labor." Workers needed tags to move, were