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Fatal flood

In the spring of 1927, after weeks of incessant rains, the Mississippi River went on a rampage from Cairo, Illinois, to New Orleans, inundating hundreds of towns, killing as many as a thousand people and leaving a million homeless. By the time it reached New Orleans, the flood had not only altered the landscape of 27,000 square miles-an area the size of four New England States-it had widened the abyss of race relations in the Deep South. Efforts to contain the river at Greenville, Mississippi, pitted a black majority against an aristocratic plantation family, the Percys--and the Percys against themselves. This film is much more than a chronicle of one of America's greatest natural disasters, it is a dramatic story of politics, greed, power, race, and honor.

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  • "In the spring of 1927, after weeks of incessant rains, the Mississippi River went on a rampage from Cairo, Illinois, to New Orleans, inundating hundreds of towns, killing as many as a thousand people and leaving a million homeless. By the time it reached New Orleans, the flood had not only altered the landscape of 27,000 square miles-an area the size of four New England States-it had widened the abyss of race relations in the Deep South. Efforts to contain the river at Greenville, Mississippi, pitted a black majority against an aristocratic plantation family, the Percys--and the Percys against themselves. This film is much more than a chronicle of one of America's greatest natural disasters, it is a dramatic story of politics, greed, power, race, and honor."@en
  • "In the spring of 1927, after weeks of incessant rains, the Mississippi River went on a rampage from Cairo, Illinois, to New Orleans, inundating hundreds of towns, killing as many as a thousand people and leaving a million homeless. In Greenville, Mississippi, efforts to contain the river pitted the majority black population against an aristocratic plantation family, the Percys-- and the Percys against themselves."
  • "In the spring of 1927, after weeks of rain, the Mississippi River went on a rampage destroying towns, farms homes and lives in Greenville Mississippi. More than a story of natural disaster, it's a story of greed, power and race."
  • "An analysis of the devastating impact the 1927 Mississippi River flood wrought on the Delta community of Greenville, Mississippi. Focuses especially on the way the flood exacerbated the already-strained relations between African American sharecroppers and wealthy white landowners."@en
  • ""In the spring of 1927, after weeks of incessant rains, the Mississippi River went on a rampage from Cairo, Illinois, to New Orleans, inundating hundreds of towns, killing as many as a thousand people and leaving a million homeless. In Greenville, Mississippi, efforts to contain the river pitted the majority black population against an aristocratic plantation family, the Percys-- and the Percys against themselves."--Http://shop.pbs.org."@en
  • ""In the spring of 1927, after weeks of incessant rains, the Mississippi River went on a rampage from Cairo, Illinois, to New Orleans, inundating hundreds of towns, killing as many as a thousand people and leaving a million homeless. In Greenville, Mississippi, efforts to contain the river pitted the majority black population against an aristocratic plantation family, the Percys-- and the Percys against themselves."--Container."

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