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What was the first college in West Virginia formally to train Black teachers?
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By about how much did West Virginia's Black population decrease between 1940 and 1980?
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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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Which one of the following did NOT lead civil rights protests against businesses?
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What Lutheran minister from Clarksburg played an important role in the 1955 Birmingham Bus Boycott in Alabama?
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Prior to 1954, what labor organization represented Black teachers in West Virginia?
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Which of the following facts about Booker T. Washington is NOT true?
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Which of the following about Carter Woodson is NOT true?
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Which one of these universities was founded on the site of a former slave plantation?
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