"One day last year, Celedonia Jones, a charismatic, self-educated historian, stood on a patch of land in Manhattan that in the 19th century was within Seneca Village, a largely Black community of about 300 people that would become part of Central Park."
"More recently, Mr. Jones used census records, title deeds, court and church documents, newspapers and photographs to trace the multigenerational lineage of the Williams family. Cal strung all the pieces together, and helped us say with absolute confidence that this was the man."
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