African Americans dealt with segregation and inequality. Throughout these events, many African Americans were dealing with hardships going on within their families such as not having enough money to eat or take care of their families. Then came the Flood of 1927, the flood started in the summer of 1926 with heavy rains that had an estimated of 350 people dead and nearly 1 million homeless. More than a half million were black, and hundreds of thousands of African Americans were displaced from their communities and workplaces. Which led to many workers having to migrate their jobs. This led to many African Americans having to be evicted from their homes, also causing many African Americans to live in bad conditions such as migrant camps where they would also get mistreated, construction, and resettlement projects. Being treated lower than everyone else on top of that simply cause of their skin color. They had less help, less awareness and less rights. Unequal Rights during segregation meant that African Americans were more heavily affected by the flood making them live in unpleasant living conditions.

An article that helps evaluate more in detail about what was happening with these black families is called “The Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927 , Ain’t Got No Place to Go” talks how they were in camps being in these negative and unsatisfying living conditions. It explains how the railroads and plantations collaborated with the American Red Cross to establish a network of refugee camps and ushered in over 200,000 African Americans into them in order to keep refugees nearby.The size and living conditions of the camps ranged from acceptable to appalling.”The camps in which we found the most satisfactory conditions were those where the local colored people have had an opportunity to assist in the administration of affairs,” stated the Colored Advisory Commission’s Final Report, which was established to work alongside the American Red Cross and the President’s Committee on Relief Work during the 1927 Mississippi Valley Flood Disaster.The following camps were found to be particularly good:Natchez, Baton Rouge, and Lafayette. The people of color had virtually no involvement in the activities of the colored refugees in the camps at Greenville, Sicily Island, and Opelousas.”

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