Fatal Flood -
american experience

Wed, Apr 9 5:00 P.M. NH Explore (11.2)  

In the spring of 1927, after weeks of incessant rains, the Mississippi River went on a rampage from Cairo, Illinois to New Orleans, inundating hundreds of towns, killing as many as a thousand people and leaving a million homeless. In Greenville, Mississippi, efforts to contain the river pitted the majority black population against an aristocratic plantation family, the Percys -- and the Percys against themselves. A story of greed, power and race during one of America's greatest natural disasters.

Duration: 56 minutes and 46 seconds

Episode Number: 1311

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Wed, Apr 9	5:00 P.M.	Fatal Flood     NH Explore (11.2)
Thu, Apr 10	5:00 A.M.	Fatal Flood     NH Explore (11.2)
Sat, Apr 19	10:00 P.M.	Fatal Flood     NH Explore (11.2)
Sun, Apr 20	2:00 A.M.	Fatal Flood     NH Explore (11.2)

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