Rising tide: the great Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America by John M. Barry

Author:John M. Barry
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Social Science, VA, 20th Century, Humphreys, African American Studies, Mississippi River Valley, Natural Disasters, Political Science, FL, Flood Control, TN, Political Freedom & Security, Nature, NC, A. A, Mississippi River, Floods - Mississippi River Valley - History - 20th century, James Buchanan, State & Local, Floods, Civil Rights, Flood control - Mississippi River - History, United States, SC, AR, South (AL, GA, Percy family, South, History, Technology & Engineering, Civil, LA, General, Mississippi River Valley - History - 1865, WV), MS, Ethnic Studies, KY, Eads
ISBN: 9780684840024
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1998-11-15T17:59:24.711000+00:00

THAT NIGHT more than twenty men from St. Bernard visited the city, broke into smaller groups, and made several stops. One was at the home of Pool. They rang the doorbell. A servant answered, then came to the dining room quaking, saying seven men were at the door with shotguns. Pool told his family, “Don’t any of you move.” He left the room and talked to the men. They had come to threaten him. They were visiting all the bankers who had promised to deal honestly with the people whose homes would be destroyed. The men standing in Pool’s foyer with guns said they would make sure those promises were kept. Their voices were angry, Pool’s calm. But he returned to dinner shaken.

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