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In what county was the African American tuberculosis sanitarium located?
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What was the first public school in West Virginia for Black children?
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Which resident of Gary started the NAACP's national Christmas Seal campaign?
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What organization led sit-ins that integrated most lunch counters in downtown Charleston in 1958?
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Which U.S. senator argued at length (a filibuster) against the 1964 Civil Rights Act?
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This Monroe County native was one of the first Black bishops in the Methodist church nationally.
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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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What was the first known Black-owned newspaper in West Virginia?
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What provided for the gradual emancipation of enslaved people in the new state of West Virginia?
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This Keyser native hosts the popular PBS TV program Finding Your Roots
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