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Which one of the following was NOT a goal of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry?
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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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By about what percentage did West Virginia's Black population increase between 1880 and 1930?
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What was the main reason for the decline in West Virginia's Black population in the mid-1900s?
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What year did West Virginia enact its first statewide anti-lynching laws?
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What was the last segregated hotel in West Virginia?
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This Monroe County native was one of the first Black bishops in the Methodist church nationally.
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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 Keyser native co-wrote an opera about a slave revolt in Haiti?
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This murder ballad is about a McDowell County railroad worker who supposedly "shot down a man along that West Virginia line."
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