The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 displaced over 700,000 people across Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi, with more than 100,000 homes destroyed and at least 250 lives lost. The federal government, under #CalvinCoolidge, refused direct intervention, assigning future president #HerbertHoover to manage relief through the American Red Cross. The military—Coast Guard, Army, and Navy—herded evacuees into makeshift refugee camps, which were segregated by race in line with Jim Crow laws. In the Mi