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Royal, Ebony, 2006

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SKR-JR-SR06
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 2006
Summary Ebony Royal [ER], age 32, is a Katrina survivor from Gretna, Louisiana. Her interview begins with some brief details from her early life and goes on to describe how she became an entrepreneur at a young age. Ebony gives a description of how she and her business partner/ close friend had previously planned a business trip to Las Vegas [for the Girlfriend’z Boutique business] that happened to be the weekend of the evacuation for Hurricane Katrina. Ebony and Rochelle rerouted their business...

Hamilton, Rodreca, 2006

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SKR-JR-SR07
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 2006
Summary Rodreca Hamilton [RH], age 21, is a Katrina survivor from Avondale, Louisiana. Her interview begins with some details from her early childhood and goes on to describe how she moved around while growing up and ended back in New Orleans where she lived prior to Hurricane Katrina. After describing living with her grandfather, RH moves on to talk about how she evacuated Avondale, Louisiana with her Aunt Rose leaving her grandfather and two uncles behind. The two took refuge at RH’s fiance’s...

Peterson, Ida, 2006

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SKR-JR-SR08
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 2006
Summary Ida Peterson [IP], age 65, is a Katrina survivor from the West Bank of New Orleans. Her interview begins with some brief details of her earlier life and moves on to reflect on some of the experiences she had with Hurricane Betsy. IP moves on to discuss how she did not want to leave for Hurricane Katrina but her daughter came to get her from her house and they went to Slidell, LA. They needed to evacuate Slidell because Katrina was a threat to that area as well when on the way they met a nice...

Woods, Karen, 2006

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SKR-KW-SR02
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 2006
Summary

Karen Woods [KW] is Katrina survivor from New Orleans, Louisiana [NO]. Her interview begins with her neighborhood in the Eastern New Orleans area. She lived in a close knit multi-cultural community, where everyone watched out for each other. Karen reflected on job as a Police Officer and the sincere love that her Police Captain felt for the community as well; especially the housing projects division. [KW] describes the sounds that she heard the night of the hurricane.

Dequir, Gena Quest, 2006

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SKR-KW-SR-03
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 2006
Summary Gena Quest Dequir [GQD] is a Hurricane Katrina Survivor from New Orleans, Louisiana. Gena talks about her family life in New Orleans before the storm. She grew up in the 6th ward on St. Philips St. It was a neighborhood filled with family members, great-grandmother, great aunts and great uncles. She’s divorced with a 10 year old daughter. She was very close to her extended family and lived in the same community with her parents. This is a home that she was purchasing at the time of the...

Foy, Amanda, 2006

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SKR-KW-SR-04
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 2006
Summary Amanda Foy [AM] talks about her childhood neighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana. She recalls the fun times spent on Frenchmen Street. She remembers playing hopscotch, dodge ball, and other childhood games. She enjoyed living in that neighborhood. Her parents moved to the New Orleans East area of town but this neighborhood was quite different from the old neighborhood. It was very quiet, not many children but her brother had a friend that lived across the street from their home. Amanda...

Minor, Betty, 2006

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SKR-KW-SR05
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 2006
Summary Betty Minor was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. She grew up in the Lower Ninth Ward neighborhood and tells us how there were only a few homes in the area. The earlier years of her life she lived with her grandmother but later move with her mother along with her two sisters. She considered herself a tomboy because she played with her uncles who were around her age. Her uncles would tap dance in the French Quarters and sometimes she would go to the Quarters to hold the tip hat. The...

Quest, Chris A., 2006

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SKR-KW-SR06
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 2006
Summary Chris A. Quest [CAQ], age 52, is a Katrina survivor from Gentilly, New Orleans, Louisiana. He describes his neighborhood as vibrant. He lived about 20 years on Treasure Street between Music Street and Art Street. The neighbors shared whatever they had with each other. His neighborhood had changed recently by having an increase in crime. He believes that you have to educate your children on the danger of drugs that have been placed in the community. CAQ has family values that his...

Mohammed, Balah, 2005

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SKR-KW-SR07
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 2005
Summary Balah Muhammad [BM], age 37, is a Barber/Stylist from New Orleans now living in Houston as a result of Kartrina; he grew up in the earlier years of his life in the Seventh Ward on Marais Street. His family later moved to 1520 Congress Street. This is where he remembers playing with his childhood friends, whom he has maintain a lifetime friendship. His career was in the hair care industry as a Barber/Stylist; a career that he didn’t really want to do because it wasn’t a challenge but, he...

Nelson, Arton, 2006

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SKR-KW-SR08
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 2006
Summary Arton Nelson [AN] had just returned to New Orleans after serving four years in the U.S. Air Force. He didn’t evacuate because his girlfriend and her family was not going to evacuate New Orleans. He decided to stay in New Orleans with her and her family to protect her if anything bad would happen during the storm. AN stayed at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown New Orleans with his girlfriend and her parents. A few days later Hurricane Katrina hit the New Orleans area. The conditions...

Muhammad, Mahdi F., 2006

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SKR-KW-SR09
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 2006
Summary Mahdi Muhammad [MM], age 39, is a former resident of the Gentilly neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, who is now living in Houston because of Hurricane Katrina, He was born in Lafayette, Louisiana. He grew up in a small town called Abbeville where he lived with his grandmother. He said; “We were in poverty but nobody ever told us we were”. There was a lot of love and laughter in the family; a two bedroom house with his grandmother, two brothers, aunt and uncles. He had desires to...

Stukes, Dorothy, 2006

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SRR-KW-SR10
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 2006
Summary Dorothy Stukes [DS] was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. She grew up in the Mid-City area of the town. It was a mixed neighborhood. DS did not experience racism in her early years, everyone lived peacefully together. Mrs. Mary a white lady owned the corner grocery store. She was a very nice lady, who also lived in the neighborhood too. DS worked in Mrs. Mary’s grocery store after school. Dorothy has fond memories of Mrs. Mary’s son, Steve. She was in love with Steve, as a child. ...

Cloud, Cedric J., 2006

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SKR-LB-SR02
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 2006
Summary Cedric J. Cloud [CC], age 31, is a Katrina survivor from New Orleans, LA [NOL]. CC describes his daily life in New Orleans right before Hurricane Katrina in Jefferson Parish as merely existing as opposed to previous experiences of enjoying a lifestyle in Orleans Parish. The storm portion of this interview is delivered without interruption as well as descriptions of life in the Houston area which follows the storm stories. Before and after the storm stories, CC contrasts the differences in...

Farina, Stacy, 2006

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SKR-LB-SR03
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 2006
Summary Stacy Farina [SF] is a Katrina survivor from New Orleans, Louisiana [NOLA]. Ms. Farina is a native of Frankfurt, Germany who lived in New Orleans from an early age. She is a single mother of two small children. She lived in Houston after her marriage and then returned to live in Lakeview after her divorce, about a year before the hurricane. The Lakeview area was hard hit by Katrina and its aftermath. Ms. Farina’s dramatic story is one of desperation and rescue, of trips back to NOLA, of...

Williams, Brandi, 2006

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SKR-LB-SR04
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 2006
Summary Brandi Williams [BW], single, age 25, is a Katrina evacuee from New Orleans, LA [NOLA]. Most of this interview is delivered without interruption. BW lived in NOLA all of her life except when she attended LSU in Baton Rouge, LA. BW grew up in middle class neighborhoods in NOLA Through visiting family in various neighborhoods throughout NOLA, BW experienced various economic ways of life. Whenever BW looks back on NOLA she remembers it fondly, although she did have certain gripes about it,...