what political response did this event get?
The devastation of the flood and the strained racial relations resulted in many African Americans joining the Great Migration from affected areas to northern and midwestern cities
Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
The devastation of the flood and the strained racial relations resulted in many African Americans joining the Great Migration from affected areas to northern and midwestern cities
who is calvin coolidge? American politician and lawyer who served as the 30th president of the United States was he a part of flood control at any point? He has often been criticized for his actions during the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 which places were effected by this flood? Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana and Mississippi Delta
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Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 [SEP] Political and social responses
States also needed money to rebuild their roads and bridges. Louisiana received $1,067,336 from the federal government for rebuilding, but it had to institute a state gasoline tax to create a $30,000,000 fund to pay for new hard-surfaced highways. The devastation of the flood and the strained racial relations resulted in many African Americans joining the Great Migration from affected areas to northern and midwestern cities, a movement that had been underway since World War I. The flood waters began to recede in June 1927, but interracial relations continued to be strained. Hostilities had erupted between the races; a black man was shot and killed by a white police officer when he refused to be forced by gunpoint to unload a relief boat.