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Backwater BluesThe Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American Imagination$
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Backwater Blues: The Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American Imagination

Richard M. Mizelle Jr.

Print publication date: 2014

Print ISBN-13: 9780816679256

Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: August 2015

DOI: 10.5749/minnesota/9780816679256.001.0001

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Chapter:
(p.1) Introduction John Lee Hooker’s Blues
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Backwater Blues
Author(s):

Richard M. Mizelle

Publisher:
University of Minnesota Press
DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9780816679256.003.0001

The Introduction discusses the many floods in the Delta counties, standardization of levees, and introduces the 1927 flood.

Keywords:   Disasters, Blues, Historical Fiction, Great Migration, Levees, 1928 Flood Control Act, Charity, New Deal, Mississippi Flood Control Project, Yazoo Mississippi Delta

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