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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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Which resident of Gary started the NAACP's national Christmas Seal campaign?
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Where was the second meeting of the Niagara Movement (which evolved into the NAACP) held?
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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 of the following facts about Booker T. Washington is NOT true?
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Which of the following about Carter Woodson is NOT true?
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Which of the following was the subject of the 1977 film Banjo Man, narrated by folk/blues musician Taj Mahal?
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What provided for the gradual emancipation of enslaved people in the new state of West Virginia?
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Which one of these universities was founded on the site of a former slave plantation?
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