At the Othmer Library in Brooklyn, N.Y., I found a story that I thought spoke in a moving way to the history of Eastern North Carolina and the Great Migration-- and especially to the historic ties between the region's African American communities and New York City.
African American families
A Beautiful Day in Piney Grove
At first light we gathered at the Friendship Holiness Church in Piney Grove, a community in the far southeastern part of the North Carolina coast. The descendants of Caesar Evans were going searching for the community's past in the local woods and swamps, and they had invited me to go with them.
David Cecelski 