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African Americans

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This enslaved person helped defend Fort Donnally in the Greenbrier Valley heroically during an attack by Shawnee Indians in 1778.
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She was the first Black woman to serve as a member of a state legislative body in the United States.
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This West Virginia native was a NASA mathematician who made important calculations for the United States' early space program.
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What year did West Virginia enact its first statewide anti-lynching laws?
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Which U.S. senator argued at length (a filibuster) against the 1964 Civil Rights Act?
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What was the last segregated hotel in West Virginia?
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What was the last public college or university in West Virginia to admit Black students?
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In 1850, which county's enslaved population did NOT make up at least 10 percent of its overall population?
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Which one of the following is a Black funeral tradition in Appalachia?
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Who was the first African American to serve as a justice on the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia?
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