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Who was president of UMWA District 17 at the time of the 1921 Miners' March on Logan?
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What equipment consolidated all of the basic mining steps into one machine?
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What international financier forced the N&W Railway to give him 50,000 acres of prime coal land in McDowell County?
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When most of our coal began forming, where was present-day West Virginia located?
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By the early 1930s, about how much of southern West Virginia's coal was being mined by African Americans?
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What percentage of people living in the Buffalo Creek hollow were left homeless by the 1972 flood?
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Which one of these coal-producing counties was NOT among the state's top 10 in population in 1950?
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In which one of these places did a deadly coal strike occur in the 1950s?
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Who was president of the United Mine Workers of America from 1920 until his retirement in 1960?
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In 1902, when Miners Hospital No. 1 opened in Welch, who was its president?
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