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What was the first college in West Virginia formally to train Black teachers?
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Which church sent missionaries to help enslaved people right after John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859?
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In 1928, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals integrated this city's two previously segregated public libraries.
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Which one of the following did NOT lead civil rights protests against businesses?
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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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Which West Virginia governor publicly called for integration in West Virginia following the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954?
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Prior to 1954, what labor organization represented Black teachers in West Virginia?
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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 compositions by Raleigh County native Bill Withers did NOT receive a Grammy Award?
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This Keyser native hosts the popular PBS TV program Finding Your Roots
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