Mississippi Noah

The title suggests that the father's prayers for his family to be delivered to dry land will be answered. Curry's direct inspiration for the subject was the flooding of the Kaw River in Kansas in 1932, but he decided to set the scene along the Mississippi River, which experienced devastating floods in 1927. The Mississippi flood of 1927 hit African-American communities particularly hard and factored in the large migration of blacks from the South to northern cities in the 1920s and 1930s.