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Race in America: Katrina Aftermath Still Roils Gretna – Town Cut Off Escape Route Out of New Orleans
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GRETNA, La. All Patryce Jenkins wanted was to walk home. For two days after Hurricane Katrina struck on Aug. 29, 2005, Jenkins had wandered the flooded streets of New Orleans, exhausted, hungry, filthy and terrified. She passed bodies. She avoided looters. She skirted the sweltering, violent Louisiana Superdome – the city’s fetid shelter of last…
GRETNA, La. All Patryce Jenkins wanted was to walk home. For two days after Hurricane Katrina struck on Aug. 29, 2005, Jenkins had wandered the flooded…
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