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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.

\"When The Levees Broke\" Lawyer Letter

One_Year_Later_Letter_da87219700.pdf

Collection

Email Correspondence

Letter addressed to Law Students from the five lawyers interviewed in Spike Lee's film "When the Levees Broke."

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Citation

“\"When The Levees Broke\" Lawyer Letter,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/13712.