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
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