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Fatal Flood

Fatal Flood Online

  • Genres: Documentary
  • Release Date: 16/04/2001
  • Duration : 1 hour
  • Director: Chana Gazit, David Steward
  • Production: Steward/Gazit Productions

Overview:

In the spring of 1927, after weeks of incessant rains, the Mississippi River went on a rampage from Cairo, Illinois to New Orleans, inundating hundreds of towns, killing as many as a thousand people and leaving a million homeless. In Greenville, Mississippi, efforts to contain the river pitted the majority black population against an aristocratic plantation family, the Percys, and the Percys against themselves. A dramatic story of greed, power and race during one of America's greatest natural disasters.

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