MS Mo 412 King T. Evans - When the Levee Breaks

An episode of the Mississippi Moments Podcast podcast, hosted by Center for Oral History & Cultural Heritage - Univ. Southern Miss, titled "MS Mo 412 King T. Evans - When the Levee Breaks" was published on September 17, 2014 and runs 4 minutes.

September 17, 2014 ·4m · Mississippi Moments Podcast

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King Evans was a teenager, living with his family on the Vickland Plantation in Nitta Yuma, Mississippi, during the Great Flood of 1927. In this episode, he recalls how the water continued to rise after the levee north of Greenville broke on the morning of April 21^st. Evans also remembers the thousands of people displaced by the floodwaters and the desperate lengths they went to for shelter.

Racial tensions flared as mistreatment of blacks was reported in other places, but according to Evans, whites and blacks worked together in Sharkey County to insure fair distribution of food.

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