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This abolitionist established Ceredo as a community for freed and fugitive enslaved people.
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Which church sent missionaries to help enslaved people right after John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859?
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What was the first public school in West Virginia for Black children?
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By about how much did West Virginia's Black population decrease between 1940 and 1980?
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Which U.S. senator argued at length (a filibuster) against the 1964 Civil Rights Act?
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This Monroe County native was one of the first Black bishops in the Methodist church nationally.
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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 Charleston native was the first African American in the United States to serve as a state librarian?
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Which one of the following did NOT publish a newspaper?
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This Wheeling native was one of the most highly regarded saxophonists of the Swing Era, performing with the likes of Fletcher Henderson, Bessie Smith, Cab Calloway, and Dizzy Gillespie.
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