PINHOOK — A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers decision to blow up the levee at Birds Point in eastern Missouri last month appears to have sealed the fate of a tiny community comprised primarily of African-Americans.
Birds Point levee breach dooms tiny African-American community
Sunday, June 19, 2011 | 6:36 p.m. CDT
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