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The levee breaks at Mounds Landing
1927
Bolivar County, Mississippi
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The levee gave way north of Greenville and put a wall of water across the Delta, flooding an area the size of Massachusetts and displacing 700,000 people. Black laborers had been held on the levee at gunpoint to sandbag it, and afterwards were kept in the Greenville refugee camp as a labour supply while white families were evacuated. It accelerated the Great Migration and produced the first federal flood control act.
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