American Experience
Season 13 Episode 11 - Fatal Flood
6.9 ?
1988
Documentary
Recalling the tidal wave of racial conflict that followed in the wake of the surging Mississippi as it inundated the delta town of Greenville, Miss., in April 1927. Greenville's leading planter, LeRoy Percy, was a racial moderate, but he joined other planters in refusing to allow their black workers to be evacuated for fear of losing their labor supply. Those workers were placed "at the end of the line" for Red Cross supplies, as one remembers, and tension grew.
Episodes in Season 13
1
The Rockefellers (1)
55 min
2
The Rockefellers (2)
55 min
3
Secrets of a Master Builder
55 min
4
Return with Honor
55 min
5
Streamliners: America's Last Trains
55 min
6
Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind
55 min
7
Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided, Part I
55 min
8
Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided, Part II
55 min
9
Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided, Part III
55 min
10
Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
55 min
11
Fatal Flood
55 min
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Stephen Foster
55 min
