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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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In 1930, approximately what percentage of coal miners in southern West Virginia were Black?
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What was the first public school in West Virginia for Black children?
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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 events was Charleston attorney T. G. Nutter NOT involved with?
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Which of the following facts about Booker T. Washington is NOT true?
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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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What Piedmont native and Storer College graduate was known as "the little giant of jazz" because of his innovative arrangements laid the foundation for the big band era?
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