A bill responding to this event co-sponsored by Wesley Jones and Frank Reid allocated three hundred twenty five million dollars in relief.  
A bill responding to this event co-sponsored by Wesley Jones and Frank Reid allocated three hundred twenty five million dollars in relief.  Robert Russa Moton of the Tuskegee Institute was pressured into not releasing a scathing report on the racism in the response to this event until the man who led that response had become President.  Major General Edgar Jadwin's namesake plan written in the aftermath of this event called for protecting the city of (*) Cairo ["CARE"-oh].  Richard M. Mizelle Jr.'s history of this event "in the African American imagination" is titled for Bessie Smith's song, "Backwater Blues".  Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover supervised the response to this event, in which 145 levees broke.  For 10 points, name this natural disaster during Calvin Coolidge's presidency which inundated many Southern states.
A bill responding to this event co-sponsored by Wesley Jones and Frank Reid allocated three hundred twenty five million dollars in relief.  
1927 Mississippi River Flood [or Great Mississippi Flood]