by Hope W. Jackson (Author)

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.

Author Biography

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.