The Mississippi Valley Flood Disaster Of 1927
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The Mississippi Valley Flood Disaster Of 1927
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Author : American National Red Cross
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1929
The Mississippi Valley Flood Disaster Of 1927 written by American National Red Cross and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1929 with Floods categories.
Deep N As It Come
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Author : Pete Daniel
language : en
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Release Date : 1977-01-01
Deep N As It Come written by Pete Daniel and has been published by University of Arkansas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977-01-01 with Social Science categories.
The spring and summer of 1927, the Mississippi River and its tributaries flooded from Cairo, Illinois, to New Orleans, Louisiana, and the Gulf of Mexico, tearing through seven states, sometimes spreading out to nearly one hundred miles across. Pete Daniel's Deep'n as It Come, available again in a new format, chronicles the worst flood in the history of the South and re-creates, with extraordinary immediacy, the Mississippi River's devastating assault on property and lives. Daniel weaves his narrative with newspaper and firsthand accounts, interviews with survivors, official reports, and over 140 contemporary photographs. The story of the common refugee who suffered most from the effects of the flood emerges alongside the details of the massive rescue and relief operation - one of the largest ever mounted in the United States. The title, Deep'n as It Come, is a phrase from Cora Lee Campbell's earthy description of the approaching water, which, Daniel writes, "moved at a pace of some fourteen miles per day," and, in its movement and sound, "had the eeriness of a full eclipse of the sun, unsettling, chilling." "The contradictions of sorrow and humor,... death and salvation, despair and hope, calm and panic - all reveal the human dimension" in this compassionate and unforgettable portrait of common people confronting a great natural disaster.
The Mississippi Valley Flood Disaster Of 1927
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Author : American National Red Cross
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1929
The Mississippi Valley Flood Disaster Of 1927 written by American National Red Cross and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1929 with Floods categories.
Rising Tide
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Author : John M. Barry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Rising Tide written by John M. Barry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
The great Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America.
Deep N As It Come The 1927 Mississippi River Flood P
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Author : Pete Daniel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Deep N As It Come The 1927 Mississippi River Flood P written by Pete Daniel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with SOCIAL SCIENCE categories.
The spring and summer of 1927, the Mississippi River and its tributaries flooded from Cairo, Illinois, to New Orleans, Louisiana, and the Gulf of Mexico, tearing through seven states, sometimes spreading out to nearly one hundred miles across. Pete Daniel's Deep'n as It Come, available again in a new format, chronicles the worst flood in the history of the South and re-creates, with extraordinary immediacy, the Mississippi River's devastating assault on property and lives. Daniel weaves his narrative with newspaper and firsthand accounts, interviews with survivors, official reports, and over 140 contemporary photographs. The story of the common refugee who suffered most from the effects of the flood emerges alongside the details of the massive rescue and relief operation - one of the largest ever mounted in the United States. The title, Deep'n as It Come, is a phrase from Cora Lee Campbell's earthy description of the approaching water, which, Daniel writes, "moved at a pace of some fourteen miles per day," and, in its movement and sound, "had the eeriness of a full eclipse of the sun, unsettling, chilling." "The contradictions of sorrow and humor,... death and salvation, despair and hope, calm and panic - all reveal the human dimension" in this compassionate and unforgettable portrait of common people confronting a great natural disaster.
When The Levee Breaks Memphis And The Mississippi Valley Flood Of 1927
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Author : Patrick O'Daniel
language : en
Publisher: History Press Library Editions
Release Date : 2013-02-05
When The Levee Breaks Memphis And The Mississippi Valley Flood Of 1927 written by Patrick O'Daniel and has been published by History Press Library Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-05 with History categories.
Disaster Response And Appointment Of A Recovery Czar
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Author : Kevin R. Kosar
language : en
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Release Date : 2011-04
Disaster Response And Appointment Of A Recovery Czar written by Kevin R. Kosar and has been published by DIANE Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04 with Nature categories.
In the wake of the destruction caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the press has looked to the past for examples of fed. responses to natural disasters that might serve as models for emulation today. The fed. response to the flood of 1927 featured Sec. of Commerce Herbert Hoover as the director of the flood response and wielding immense executive powers. This report describes the flood of 1927, and assesses the fed. government¿s response. Pres. Calvin Coolidge created a quasi-governmental commission that included members of his Cabinet and the Red Cross. This commission encouraged the public to donate funds to the relief effort and gave Hoover near-absolute authority to organize and oversee its response. A print on demand report.
Father Mississippi
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Author : Lyle Saxon
language : en
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Release Date : 2000-04-30
Father Mississippi written by Lyle Saxon and has been published by Pelican Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-04-30 with History categories.
As Lyle Saxon writes in his introduction: "This book is not a history of the Mississippi River in the strict sense of the word, although I have outlined the discovery, the exploration, and the settlement of the valley�but this volume is like a scrap-book in which I have collected men�s thoughts, my own thoughts. These incidents seem to me informative, or amusing, or terrible, or tragic, or fantastic, but they are all a part of the living pageant which moved down the river through the changing years." First published in 1927, Father Mississippi contains accounts of those who lived their lives along the Mississippi River, and documents the first ripple in a wave of tremendous changes that took place in its environment. Over 70 years later, Father Mississippi still stands as an important history of the floods of 1927, most often remembered for their far-reaching impact on the cities along the Mississippi River, and the devastation they caused to towns in the southern Mississippi River Valley region. The accounts provide easy reading while acquainting the audience with characters such as Father Hennepin and Molly Glass, the murderess, who speak in their own words. Photos of life along the river and of the floods accompany these captivating excerpts.
Backwater Blues
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Author : Richard M. Mizelle Jr.
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2014-10-15
Backwater Blues written by Richard M. Mizelle Jr. and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-15 with Social Science categories.
The Mississippi River flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in U.S. history, reshaping the social and cultural landscape as well as the physical environment. Often remembered as an event that altered flood control policy and elevated the stature of powerful politicians, Richard M. Mizelle Jr. examines the place of the flood within African American cultural memory and the profound ways it influenced migration patterns in the United States. In Backwater Blues, Mizelle analyzes the disaster through the lenses of race and charity, blues music, and mobility and labor. The book’s title comes from Bessie Smith’s “Backwater Blues,” perhaps the best-known song about the flood. Mizelle notes that the devastation produced the richest groundswell of blues recordings following any environmental catastrophe in U.S. history, with more than fifty songs by countless singers evoking the disruptive force of the flood and the precariousness of the levees originally constructed to protect citizens. Backwater Blues reveals larger relationships between social and environmental history. According to Mizelle, musicians, Harlem Renaissance artists, fraternal organizations, and Creole migrants all shared a sense of vulnerability in the face of both the Mississippi River and a white supremacist society. As a result, the Mississippi flood of 1927 was not just an environmental crisis but a racial event. Challenging long-standing ideas of African American environmental complacency, Mizelle offers insights into the broader dynamics of human interactions with nature as well as ways in which nature is mediated through the social and political dynamics of race.Includes discography.
The Flood Year 1927
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Author : Susan Scott Parrish
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2018-12-04
The Flood Year 1927 written by Susan Scott Parrish and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-04 with History categories.
A richly nuanced cultural history of the Great Mississippi flood The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in U.S. history, drowning crops and displacing more than half a million people across seven states. It was also the first environmental disaster to be experienced virtually on a mass scale. The Flood Year 1927 draws from newspapers, radio broadcasts, political cartoons, vaudeville, blues songs, poetry, and fiction to show how this event provoked an intense and lasting cultural response. Americans at first seemed united in what Herbert Hoover called a "great relief machine," but deep rifts soon arose. Southerners, pointing to faulty federal levee design, decried the attack of Yankee water. The condition of African American evacuees prompted comparisons to slavery from pundits like W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells. And environmentalists like Gifford Pinchot called the flood "the most colossal blunder in civilized history." Susan Scott Parrish examines how these and other key figures—from entertainers Will Rogers, Miller & Lyles, and Bessie Smith to authors Sterling Brown, William Faulkner, and Richard Wright—shaped public awareness and collective memory of the event. The crises of this period that usually dominate historical accounts are war and financial collapse, but The Flood Year 1927 allows us to assess how mediated environmental disasters became central to modern consciousness.