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Who was West Virginia's first Black legislator?
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Booker T. Washington was a member of this church in Malden.
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By about what percentage did West Virginia's Black population increase between 1880 and 1930?
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Where was the second meeting of the Niagara Movement (which evolved into the NAACP) held?
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Which West Virginia governor publicly called for integration in West Virginia following the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954?
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What Keyser native co-wrote an opera about a slave revolt in Haiti?
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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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Which of the following about Carter Woodson is NOT true?
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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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