Commissioned by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "The Great Flood" documents the Mississippi River Flood of 1927, the most destructive in our nation's history, in which she broke out of her embankments in 145 places, inundating 27,000 square miles, including wide swaths of Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas. The flood displaced sharecroppers, who left the plantation to migrate north, bringing (among many other things) new musical sounds and styles to Memphis, Detroit, Chicago.
