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Three Black men were elected to the state legislature
West Virginia was a product of the Civil War. When Virginia seceded from the Union, Western Virginians soon formed a new state. Although Booker T. Washington, Adam Clayton Powell Sr., and others made the journey across the mountains, West Virginia...
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