From the book Light of the August Moon;
The Mississippi River flooded nearly one third of the country in the spring of 1927. Already impoverished, our cousins endured unconscionable cruelty and danger trying to survive the water, mosquitos, hunger, hopelessness and of course racism. Promises were made for relief and then broken. The northern migration gained a few more passengers after the water receded in a desperate search to escape southern tyranny.
