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The American Red Cross conceals abuse of Black people in their refugee camps.

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After mass flooding across Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana, the American Red Cross deliberately hides stories from Black refugees in their Red Cross camps in order to continue to raise donations for their work.

Black activists fight to draw attention to this cover-up, even as Herbert Hoover and the Red Cross conspire to use the camps as examples of "racial harmony."