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What was the first college in West Virginia formally to train Black teachers?
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In what county was the African American tuberculosis sanitarium located?
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Booker T. Washington was a member of this church in Malden.
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Which resident of Gary started the NAACP's national Christmas Seal campaign?
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What organization led sit-ins that integrated most lunch counters in downtown Charleston in 1958?
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In which county did White students walk out of school in protest of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 desegregation decision?
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This Wheeling native was one of the most highly regarded saxophonists of the Swing Era, performing with the likes of Fletcher Henderson, Bessie Smith, Cab Calloway, and Dizzy Gillespie.
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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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Which of the following compositions by Raleigh County native Bill Withers did NOT receive a Grammy Award?
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On the eve of the Civil War, which county in present West Virginia had the most enslaved people?
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