According to many historians, that relief effort was instrumental in propelling Hoover into the national spotlight and eventually helped him win the 1929 presidential election.
The Mississippi Flood as the Cause of Racial Tension
Approximately 650,000 people were directly affected by the Mississippi Flood of 1927, having to relocate because their homes, property, and entire communities were completely destroyed by the flood. Almost half of them were housed in relief camps of whom almost three-quarters were African-American. In many cases, the conditions sparked racial tensions and events such as what occurred in Greenville, Mississippi. More than 10,000 people were stranded without drinking water, food, or any other supplies for several days.
When boats finally arrived, they initially rescued only children and white women, leaving white men, and African-Americans. In another event that made nationwide headlines, police had been sent to round up relief workers from the "Negro" areas. When an African-American man refused orders to report for work, he was shot by police.
In many cases, the failure to rescue African-Americans (especially in Mississippi) was actually a deliberate decision by influential white landowners. They feared that if the African-American sharecroppers to whom they leased land and from whose work they profited were allowed to evacuate the region, they would choose not to return.
They were, in effect, imprisoned at the levees by wealthy white men in a manner reminiscent of the slavery era in the American South. Other specific incidents of racial violence and the racial tensions that they and the general treatment of African-Americans...
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