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.

Portrait & Narrative created at Mama D\'s House

Collection

Post-Katrina Portraits, Francesco

Charcoal portrait of Common Ground volunteer. Complete text is: \"Some Trotskyists once asked me if I thought the revolution would come in my lifetime. I told them nuh-uh. Now I think it might happen. This is progress. What do you think?\" Notation at bottom of page: Sketched by Mama D\'s driveway fire in the Seventh Ward.

Keywords:

campfire, hope, mama d, revolution

Files:

someTrots_6ee6fc2486.pdf

Citation

“Portrait & Narrative created at Mama D\'s House,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed April 24, 2024, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/26962.

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