When They Blew the Levee: Race, Politics, and Community in Pinhook, Missouri

by David Todd Lawrence and Elaine J. Lawless

Book Overview

Winner of the 2019 Chicago Folklore Prize

In 2011, the Midwest suffered devastating floods. Due to the flooding, the US Army Corps of Engineers activated the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway, one of the flood prevention mechanisms of the Mississippi Rivers and Tributaries Project. This levee breach was intended to divert water in order to save the town of Cairo, Illinois, but in the process, it completely destroyed the small African American...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496818156
• ISBN13: 9781496818157
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"