Books & Articles – 1927 Great Flood

Commemorating the 100-year anniversary of the greatest flood in American history

The National Geographic Magazine (September 1927)

Bessie Smith’s ‘Back-Water Blues’: The Story Behind the Song

Black Levee Camp Workers, The NAACP, and the Mississippi Flood Control Project, 1927-1993

Backwater Blues: The Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American Imagination

Deep’n as It Come: The 1927 Mississippi River Flood

The Flood Year 1927: A Cultural History

Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America

Contested Terrain: The Mississippi Flood of 1927 and the Struggle to Control Black Labor

Richard Wright’s Flood Stories and the Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927: Social and Historical Backgrounds

Death by the Riverside: Richard Wright’s Black Pastoral and the Mississippi Flood of 1927