Family roots lure many African-Americans back to South

Anita Davenport's curiosity about her family's past began with the photographs that surrounded her. She said she wanted to know the stories behind the images of her parents and uncles.

The stories she found -- and shared during several phone conversations from her home in Culver City, California -- parallel the African-American journey during the past century.

The search took her to 1894, when her grandfather, Walter, was born in Stone Mountain, Georgia.