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This enslaved person helped defend Fort Donnally in the Greenbrier Valley heroically during an attack by Shawnee Indians in 1778.
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Who was West Virginia's first Black legislator?
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By about what percentage did West Virginia's Black population increase between 1880 and 1930?
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In 1928, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals integrated this city's two previously segregated public libraries.
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Which one of the following did NOT lead civil rights protests against businesses?
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School segregation was prohibited nationally in 1954. What year did West Virginia remove that clause from the state constitution?
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This Monroe County native was one of the first Black bishops in the Methodist church nationally.
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What Keyser native co-wrote an opera about a slave revolt in Haiti?
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Huntington native and blues singer Mary McClain was the half-sister of what blues great?
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This Keyser native hosts the popular PBS TV program Finding Your Roots
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