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Which resident of Gary started the NAACP's national Christmas Seal campaign?
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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 city's Triangle District was home to African Americans and immigrants from many eastern European countries?
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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 one of the following was NOT the site of a desegregation protest?
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What was the last segregated hotel in West Virginia?
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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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What provided for the gradual emancipation of enslaved people in the new state of West Virginia?
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Where was the first building in the country constructed to honor Black World War I veterans?
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