1927 Mississippi River Flood (Archives): Publications

The volumes listed below are available in the Archives & Special Collections which collects memoirs and biographies of Mississippians as well as histories and other reference works on Mississippi locales.  Further information and first person accounts of the 1927 flood may also appear in the books and histories of Mississippi cities and counties found along the river.  Conduct keyword searches on the library catalog on a particular city or county.  As you identify significant individuals involved in the disaster, conduct a keyword search in the library catalog for their name and limit the search’s location to Special Collections. 

American Red Cross.  The Mississippi Valley Flood Disaster of 1927:  Official Report of the Relief Operations.  Washington, DC: American National Red Cross, [1928].  Call Number:  HV610 1927 A54 1928.

John M. Barry.  Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.  Call Number:  F354 B47 1997.

Fred D. Beneke, ed.  The Flood of 1927: Mississippi River and Tributaries.  Memphis, TN: Mississippi River Flood Control Association, circa 1927.  Call Number:  F354 F52 1927.

John T. Black.  A History of the Mississippi Levee Board: From Greenville Bends to the Yazoo River.  [Greenville, MS]: John T. Black, 2006.  Call Number:  TC425 M61 B53 2006.

T.G. Dabney.  The Great Flood of 1912: Report.  [MS: 1912].  Call Number:  GB1399.3 D33 1912.

Pete Daniel.  Deep’n as It Comes: The 1927 Mississippi River Flood.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.  Call Number:  HV610 1927 D 35.

Kathleen Duey.  Flood Mississippi 1927.  New York: Aladdin Paperbacks, 1998.  Juvenile novel set in Mississippi during the flood.  Call Number:  PZ7 D8694 F1 1998.

John A. Fox.  Mississippi River Flood Problems: How the Floods Can Be Prevented.  Washington, DC: J.W. Bryan Press, 1914.  Call Number:  TC425 M6 F8 1915.

Gary B. Mills.  Of Men & Rivers: The Story of the Vicksburg District.  Vicksburg, MS:  U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1978.  Call Number:  UG23 M54 1978.

Mississippi River and Tributaries Flood Control.  Index Maps, Vicksburg Engineer District, 1929.  [N.p.: 1929].  Call Number:  TC425 M63 M7 1929.

Mississippi River Flood Control Association.  Losses and Damages Resulting from the Flood of 1927, Mississippi River and Tributaries, in the States of Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana.  Memphis, TN: Mississippi River Flood Control Association [1927].  Call Number:  F354 M67.

Richard M. Mizell Jr.  Backwater Blues:  The Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African-American Imagination.  Minneapolis:  University of Minnesota Press, 2014.  Call Number:  E185.6 M76 2014.

Matthew Todd Pearcy.  “Will Whittington and the Legislative History of Flood Control for the Yazoo Basin.”  M.A. Thesis, University of Mississippi, 1991.  Call Number:  Master’s Thesis.

Bette Baird Tilly.  “Memphis and the Mississippi Valley Flood of 1927” M.A. Thesis, University of Mississippi, 1968. 

Curtis McDonald Townsend.  Flood Control of the Mississippi River:  Address…before the National Drainage congress, St. Louis, Mo., April 11th, 1913.  Memphis, TN: Mississippi River Levee Association, [1913].  Call Number:  TC425 M6 T6.