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The former state 4-H camp for African Americans was named for which two prominent black leaders?
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In what county was the African American tuberculosis sanitarium located?
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What was the main reason for the decline in West Virginia's Black population in the mid-1900s?
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What city's Triangle District was home to African Americans and immigrants from many eastern European countries?
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What organization led sit-ins that integrated most lunch counters in downtown Charleston in 1958?
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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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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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This Wheeling native played bass in Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys?
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This Huntington native was a star of the Harlem Renaissance and performed with a popular radio quartet called the Four Bon-Bons.
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