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African Americans

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Who was West Virginia's first Black legislator?
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In what county was the African American tuberculosis sanitarium located?
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This abolitionist established Ceredo as a community for freed and fugitive enslaved people.
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Which Black lawyer won an early school discrimination lawsuit in 1887
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Which one of the following did NOT lead civil rights protests against businesses?
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This Monroe County native was one of the first Black bishops in the Methodist church nationally.
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Prior to 1954, what labor organization represented Black teachers in West Virginia?
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Which one of the following events was Charleston attorney T. G. Nutter NOT involved with?
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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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This Wheeling native played bass in Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys?
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