How Did The Mississippi River Affect America

The absolute tragedy of 1927 lacerated an abundance of homes and families. It was thee most destructive river flood in the history of the United States of America. There were 27 thousand square miles overwhelmed by at least 30 feet of water and affected 63 hundred thousand people affected. Ninety-four percent of the affected people lived in Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, and almost all of the Mississippi Delta. Over 2 hundred-thousand African Americans along the Mississippi River had been forced to move to relief camps. This was a cause that hardly impacted the Great Migration from the South to the North. Many cities and small communities built artificial levees ranging in height from four to six feet. Even many rural areas took protection. Much of the banking of the Mississippi River had a sort of levee to help protect the land, but no matter all of the efforts put towards preventing a protecting, there was more water, more damage, more fear, panic, misery, and death of drowning than any American would ever see. But nature would soon be conquered, or so we thought. In 1927, there
As the river receded, more rains came yet again and the Mississippi rose. Middle America needed to come up with a new way to save the land, the people, and the cities. The workers, such as the men that worked in cotton plantations, set up concentration camps on levees. For example, Charles Williams, an employee at a cotton plantation, set up a concentration camp in Greenville that had field kitchens and tents for thousands of plantation workers, all African Americans, and for the men, women, and children that are contributing to help against the great flood. Although the people’s efforts were good, but there were several mistakes in the rush to get ahead of the water. The crevices in different spots had been very dumb and costly