tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post1797988946122670081..comments2023-04-20T12:46:11.858-06:00Comments on The Ancestry Insider: In Memoriam: Victims of 1927 FloodsThe Ancestry Insiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02490682912125335188noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-47865981991663558452011-07-10T19:20:23.082-06:002011-07-10T19:20:23.082-06:00John Barry wrote a best selling book in 1997 about...John Barry wrote a best selling book in 1997 about this tragedy, "Rising Tide: The Great Flood of 1927 and how it changed America." I commend the book and others he has written.<br />From Library Journal:<br />In the spring of 1927, America witnessed perhaps its greatest natural disaster: a flood that profoundly changed race relations, government, and society in the Mississippi River valley region. Barry presents here a fascinating social history of the effects of the massive flood. More than 30 feet of water stood over land inhabited by nearly one million people. Almost 300,000 African Americans were forced to live in refugee camps for months. Many people, both black and white, left the land and never returned. Using an impressive array of primary and secondary sources, Barry clearly traces and analyzes how the changes produced by the flood in the lower South came into conflict and ultimately destroyed the old planter aristocracy, accelerated black migration to the North, and foreshadowed federal government intervention in the region's social and economic life during the New Deal. His well-written work supplants Pete Daniel's Deep'n as It Come: The 1927 Mississippi Flood (1977) as the standard work on the subject.weskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11558846585517085544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-59711350149221103152011-07-08T07:43:04.487-06:002011-07-08T07:43:04.487-06:00We have no idea the toll of human suffering in nat...We have no idea the toll of human suffering in natural disastors now and long ago.Claudiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02714440790407126206noreply@blogger.com