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In what county was the African American tuberculosis sanitarium located?
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Booker T. Washington was a member of this church in Malden.
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Which Black lawyer won an early school discrimination lawsuit in 1887
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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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Who was the first Black woman to become a solo pilot at West Virginia State's Civilian Pilot Training Program?
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Hamilton Hatter was the first principal of this Historically Black College or University?
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Which of the following facts about Booker T. Washington is NOT true?
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In the early 1930s, other than in larger cities, what part of the state did most Blacks live in?
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Who was the first African American to serve as a justice on the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia?
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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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