During this disaster, evacuees to the town of Greenville were denied food and water and instead forced to work at gunpoint. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this natural disaster, the worst of its kind in U.S. history. It displaced over 600,000 people, most of them Black farmers.
ANSWER: Great Mississippi Flood [or the Mississippi Flood of 1927; accept answers including a flood of the Mississippi River and 1927; prompt on partial answers]
[10m] This then-cabinet member was put in charge of relief efforts, and formed the Colored Advisory Committee led by Robert Moton to burnish his reputation among African-Americans.
ANSWER: Herbert Hoover
[10e] Hoover immediately broke all of his promises to Moton after being elected president, a bad move since Moton was the influential principal of this university founded by Booker T. Washington.
ANSWER: Tuskegee Institute [or Tuskegee University]
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