Collecting and Preserving the Stories of Katrina and Rita

The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University and the University of New Orleans organized the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank (HDMB) in 2005 in partnership with many national and Gulf Coast area organizations and individuals. HDMB was awarded the Award of Merit for Leadership in History, and is the largest free public archive of Katrina and Rita with over 25,000 items in the collection. Read More.

Online File Contribution, Hurricane Digital Memory Bank

Collection

Sociology Department, MSU

This is the narrative story of the 200 New Orleans college students who moved to Lake Charles, Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina, and only days later were forced to move again due to Hurricane Rita.

Files:

Storytelling_and_Survival_3_New_Orleans_30ac6a1999.doc

Citation

“Online File Contribution, Hurricane Digital Memory Bank,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed May 5, 2024, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/2346.

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