"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 pitte...

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Format:	Video VHS
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	[Alexandria, VA?] PBS Home Video c2001
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1900-2000 Floods / Mississippi River / History / 20th century Floods / Mississippi / Greenville African Americans / Mississippi / Greenville / History / 20th century Forced labor / Mississippi / Greenville / History / 20th century Documentary television programs Films for the hearing impaired Geschichte Schwarze. USA Greenville (Miss.) / Race relations / History / 20th century Greenville (Miss.) / Social conditions / 20th century Greenville (Miss.) / History / 20th century Mississippi River / History / 20th century
Zusammenfassung:	"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."--Http://shop.pbs.org
Beschreibung:	VHS.. - Originally broadcast as an segment of The American experience Narrated by Liev Schreiber Co-directed and edited by David Steward ; cinematography, Joel Shapiro, Terry Hopkins, James Callanan ; music, Michael Bacon
Beschreibung:	1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.) sd., col. 1/2 in