New York City may have been the Number One destination for North Carolinians during the Great Migration, but Washington, D.C., surely was second, especially after the Great Depression.
- Moody, William, wife Sarah Ward Moody and children, bef. 1900
- Artis, Solomon Andrew, bef. 1907
- Artis, Columbus E., mid-1910s (returned to Wilson bef. 1922)
- Barnes, Clinton Robert, bef. 1917
- Bowser, Russell L., bef. 1917
- Barnes, Harvey Grey, bef. 1918
- Brown, Richard B., bef. 1918
- Farrior, Dalley, bef. 1918
- Burns [Bunn], William, bef. 1920 (first, to Maine)
- Gaston, Augustus, bef. 1930
- Reid, James D., bef. 1930
- Reid, J.D., 1930
- Ruffin, James Garfield, wife Parthenia, and children, bef. 1930
- Winstead, Arnold Clearfield, betw. 1930 and 1934
- Cotton, Sidney W., bef. 1931
- Bagley, Lonnie, bef. 1933
- Warren, Elijah, wife Marie Haskins Warren, and children, ca. 1934
- Whitehead, Thelma Reid, bef. 1935
- Bryant, Counsel, bef. 1935
- Bynum, Theodore, bef. 1935
- Bynum, Raymond, bef. 1935
- Cameron, John R., bef. 1935
- Cooper, Haywood R., bef. 1935
- Barnes, Frederick A., bef. 1935
- Henderson, Dempsey L., 1930s
- McNair, Lena, 1930s
- Powell Battle Dade, Inez, 1930s?
- Bynum, Benjamin, betw. 1935 and 1940
- Harrison Palmer, Ojetta, bef. 1937
- Hill Westray, Kay, 1939
- Barnes, John, bef. 1940
- Brown, James E., bef. 1940
- Bynum, Joe, bef. 1940
- Bynum, William, bef. 1940
- Bynum, William, bef. 1940
- Bynum, Willie James, bef. 1940
- Bullock, James A., bef. 1940
- Bullock, Joseph, bef. 1940
- Carter, Roby, ca. 1940
- Coppedge, James E., bef. 1940
- Campbell, Theodore, bef. 1940
- Creech, David, bef. 1940
- High, John W., bef. 1940
- Powell, Eddie C., bef. 1940
- Bullard, James, bef. 1941
- Cox, Henry L., bef. 1941
- Barnes, John T., bef. 1942
- Black, Troy, bef. 1942
- Bullard, Frank, bef. 1942
- Byrd, Samuel, bef. 1942
- Cogdell, Pervis, bef. 1942
- Cotton, Isaac E., bef. 1942
- Cotton, Zid, bef. 1942
- Carter, Lenard, bef. 1942
- Carter, James W., bef. 1942
- Farmer, Lonnie, bef. 1942
- Haskins, Allen J., bef. 1935
- Haskins, James, bef. 1942
- Haskins, Nathan Porter, bef. 1942
- Hines, Joseph Peter, bef. 1942
- Hockaday, Willie, bef. 1942
- Hollings, Fred, bef. 1942
- Jones, William Pete, bef. 1942
- Jones, Willie, bef. 1942
- Powell, Dempsey Ward, bef. 1942
- Redding, Fleetwood, bef. 1942
- Robinson, Walter, bef. 1942
- Rosser, James Hays, bef. 1942
- Simms, Dempsey, bef. 1942
- Simms, Henry, bef. 1942
- Simms, James, bef. 1942
- Tabyran, Calvin, bef. 1942
- Taylor, Joshua Paul, bef. 1942
- Watson, Herbert, bef. 1942
- Westray, William Herbert, bef. 1942
- Whitley, John G., bef. 1942
- Williams, James J., bef. 1942
- Williams, Thomas, bef. 1942
- Woodard, Calvin, bef. 1942
- Powell Beane, Vanilla, bef. 1942
- Jones, Johnnie W., and Marie Lofton Jones and children Ruby, Cecilia, Johnie, Charles, Joan and Jacqueline, 1944
- Burns, James A., bef. 1945
- Reid, Herbert O., 1947
- Boyd, Joyce Henderson, late 1940s
- Swinney Dupree, Gracie, late 1940s
- Wilder, Seth, 1950s
- Henderson, Jesse A., 1950s (in Philadelphia, Penn., before and Baltimore, Md., after)
Jesse A. Henderson in D.C., circa early 1950s.