The Stories of Building the Black Beach Community of Ocean City, North Carolina

The Stories of Building the Black Beach Community of Ocean City, North Carolina shares a provocative story about a small Black beach community on North Topsail Island, North Carolina. Ocean City residents radically created a safe harbor for Blacks to visit, live, worship and recreate in the midst of de facto segregation.

Hope Jackson is director of the Master’s program in English and African-American Literature in the English Department at North Carolina A&T State University.