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Jun 29, 2023

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Flood refugees wait in line for a free meal in Forrest City, Arkansas, 1937. — Walker Evans photo.

Extreme rainfall in January and February, 1937, flooded the Mississippi and Arkansas Rivers, uprooting 1.5 million people across eleven states.

They found refuge in 75 segregated tent cities that relief agencies erected across the region.

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