Interview: “What was the shelter like?” - - A survivor's story: How does it really feel?

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(Oral Histories of the American South, Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. More about the recording)
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Charles Thompson

Describe it. How many people were in there and the types of people who were there?

Elberta Hudson

Oh, Lord, it was so many people. It was so many people. It was the Mexican people, black people, white people. And it was a lot of people, you know, young, old, middle age.

Thomas Hudson

They had the whole middle school jammed up with people who started coming.

Elberta Hudson

And it was packed. It was cots side-to-side.

Thomas Hudson

And they didn’t have enough room to house them all, so they opened up another, bigger school down at Penderlea.

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