Lake Providence / Greenville / BREAD / Pittsburgh / Chicago / /
Company
The Chicago Defender / Delta & Pine Land Company / Coleman / /
Country
Congo / United States / Columbia / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
Natural Disaster / /
Facility
Levee Breaks / American South∗ Richard Hornbeck Harvard University / NBER Suresh Naidu Columbia University / Red Cross camp / /
IndustryTerm
little flood insurance / machinery / capital equipment / capital-intensive technologies / circulated black newspaper / marginal product / labor-saving technology / food / districts farm-machinery salesmen / large manufacturing sectors / black social networks / plicit insurance / possible solution / largescale machinery / Social networks / agricultural technology / /
NaturalFeature
Southern rivers / Mississippi River Valley / Mississippi river / Mount Horeb / /
Organization
Republican Party / Columbia University / Harvard University / UC Berkeley / Ku Klux Klan / Red Cross / Mississippi Agricultural Extension Service / National Guard / NBER / US military / Stanford / /
Person
Suresh Naidu / Gardner / Davis / Alex Scott / Tom Beckford / Leah Boustan / Andrei Shleifer / Jeff Vincent / Leroy Percy / Leo Schwartz / Gavin Wright / Herbert Hoover / William Pickens / Robert Moton / E.M. Weddington / Will Percy / Larry Katz / Lillian Fine / Paul Rhode / Claudia Goldin / Dave Donaldson / James Feigenbaum / Andrew Das Sarma / Bill Collins / Lee Alston / Paul David / /
Position
mayor / editor / wB / chief / director of the Delta Land and Pine Company / Commerce Secretary / Governor / wage wB / commander / Major / representative / black insurance officer / white policeman / black worker / Arkansan NAACP secretary / leader / /
When the Levee Breaks: Black Migration and Economic Development in the American South∗ Richard Hornbeck Harvard University and NBER Suresh Naidu