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Booker T. Washington was a member of this church in Malden.
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Who was the first licensed Black funeral director in West Virginia?
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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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School segregation was prohibited nationally in 1954. What year did West Virginia remove that clause from the state constitution?
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Which former Charleston minister became the first Black president of Howard University in Washington, D.C.?
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What Keyser native co-wrote an opera about a slave revolt in Haiti?
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Which of the following about Carter Woodson is NOT true?
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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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Who led the psychology department of West Virginia State College (now University) for 40 years in the 20th century?
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