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Women of the Mountain State

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Born enslaved, she once owned all of what is now the campus of West Virginia State University.
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This Presbyterian missionary worked to improve the lives of people living in poverty near Morgantown during the Great Depression.
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This Mercer County native wrote the song "West Virginia, My Home."
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Which one of these organizations taught and encouraged women to can food in the early 1900s?
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In 1943, she established a settlement house in Huntington as a safe haven for disadvantaged and homeless women.
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This author, who grew up in Keyser, wrote the classic novel Christy.
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This former state poet laureate published the book Six O'clock Mine Report.
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This author wrote the popular Henry and Mudge children's series of books and won the Caldecott Honor for When I Was Young in the Mountains.
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What Fayette County legislator once helped break up an armed robbery at the bank where she worked?
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This Clarksburg native has written extensively on the art of writing, children's books, and adult fiction, such as A Space Apart, which is largely based in West Virginia.
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