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What was the first college in West Virginia formally to train Black teachers?
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During this decade, the last all-Black schools in West Virginia were closed due to the integration of public education.
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Which resident of Gary started the NAACP's national Christmas Seal campaign?
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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 Charles Town native was the only African American commissioned as an officer during the Civil War?
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Hamilton Hatter was the first principal of this Historically Black College or University?
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In which county did White students walk out of school in protest of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 desegregation decision?
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In the early 1930s, other than in larger cities, what part of the state did most Blacks live in?
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On the eve of the Civil War, what was the only county in present West Virginia with no recorded enslaved people?
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In the era of segregation, what was Clarksburg's Black high school called?
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