Refugees from the 1927 Mississippi flood in Greenville, MS. African American citizens of Greenville
Refugees from the 1927 Mississippi flood in Greenville, MS. African American citizens of Greenville were not allowed to evacuate the area after the town of Greenville was flooded because white leaders were afraid they would never return and that local cotton plantations would lack inexpensive labor. Evacuation boats came to Greenville and left largely empty. Black residents of the refugee camps received poor food, no utensils, and, in order to claim relief money from the Red Cross, had to go through white landowners (many of whom simply kept the money) instead of receiving aid directly. -- source link
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