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Booker T. Washington was a member of this church in Malden.
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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 was NOT the site of a desegregation protest?
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Who was the first Black woman to become a solo pilot at West Virginia State's Civilian Pilot Training Program?
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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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Who was the first Black woman elected to the legislature in West Virginia?
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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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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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Which one of these universities was founded on the site of a former slave plantation?
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This Huntington native was a star of the Harlem Renaissance and performed with a popular radio quartet called the Four Bon-Bons.
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