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"Further, they did not evacuate the sharecroppers, but left them to live atop the eight-foot wide dykes, lest they not return to resume farming when the waters subsided. And the rich never reimbursed"

Wasn't that part of Hoover's undelivered promise.

4,562 posted on 09/03/2005 2:10:53 PM PDT by smug (Tanstaafl)

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John Barry, author of Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 describes the epic disaster.

Complete Real Audio Interview this Page: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4831423

4,652 posted on 09/03/2005 2:31:40 PM PDT by Age of Reason

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