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She was the first Black woman to serve as a member of a state legislative body in the United States.
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In 1930, approximately what percentage of coal miners in southern West Virginia were Black?
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What was the first public school in West Virginia for Black children?
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What year did West Virginia enact its first statewide anti-lynching laws?
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What Lutheran minister from Clarksburg played an important role in the 1955 Birmingham Bus Boycott in Alabama?
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What was the last public college or university in West Virginia to admit Black students?
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Which Wheeling citizen was the subject of a case in which the U.S. Supreme Court used the 14th Amendment to the Constitution to invalidate a state law?
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This murder ballad is about a McDowell County railroad worker who supposedly "shot down a man along that West Virginia line."
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What jazz musician has been the long-time pianist for the radio program Mountain Stage?
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This Keyser native hosts the popular PBS TV program Finding Your Roots
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