"The Rising Tide" about the 1927 flood; history similarly repeats itself

[silverlib]

“The Rising Tide” a book about the 1927 flood. One of the reviews on Amazon states, “Almost 300,000 African Americans were forced to live in refugee camps for months.”

I haven't read the book, but my husband is from this area and recalls, through verbal history, that the African Americans were put on barges and held for months by the Army because the land owners were afraid they would head north and not return to pick the cotton.

Are we still so barbaric? I realize that this may not be a race issue, but no one can convince me that it is not, at least, a class issue.

[jefferson_dem]

1. I heard the author on NPR this morning. He was noting how Coolidge

in 1927, without the use of airplanes, was able to dispatch more help to those suffering in two days than this fuckface "pres" has offered in five. Given the obviously racial overtones you refer to in Miss - 1927...this is more than sickening really.