Podcasts History The History of the Twentieth Century 256 When the Levees Broke

256 When the Levees Broke

Published: Oct. 17, 2021, 4 p.m.

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Unusually heavy rainfall led to widespread flooding in the Mississippi Valley in 1927. The Coolidge Administration's Secretary of Everything, Herbert Hoover, was tasked with flood relief. What kind of relief you got depended heavily on your skin color.

Meanwhile, a different sort of flood was rising on the New York Stock Exchange.

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