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• South Charleston

  … on the south side of Kanawha River. Civil engineers laid out an orderly grid … and the Kanawha River. During "World War I":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … boomed as demand for chemicals and other war products grew. The federal government broke …

• Miles Stanley

  … as a machinist. After serving in the army artillery in World War II, he became a steelworker. He rose rapidly in his … of human rights, Stanley was an adviser to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. The state headquarters building of the West Virginia AFL- …

• VISTA

  … The next year, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a ‘‘war on poverty’’ and signed the Economic Opportunity Act of … of activism on America’s college campuses, anti-war protests, the Civil Rights movement, and feminism. By and large they were the children …

• Jehovah’s Witnesses v. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company

  The December 1941 firing of seven "Jehovah’s Witnesses":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1000 from the Pittsburgh Plate Glass plant in Clarksburg, West Virginia, resulted in an extremely rare use of administrative law to expand legal …

• West Virginia State University

  … then the enrollment had grown to 1,000. A historic struggle for civil rights lay ahead, bringing a great turning point in the history … He faced an additional problem: enrollment had declined from a post-war high of 1,785 in 1947–48 to only 837 students …

• Charleston Ordnance Center

  … articles/518. Construction began before "World War I":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … , with much expansion in "World War II":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … laboratory. At times, more than 200 civil service workers and five Navy personnel …

• Whiskey Rebellion

  … spirits. Intended to help pay off the remaining "Revolutionary War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/70 debts, the tax incited civil unrest that seriously alarmed the fledgling nation’s government. …

• Franklin D. Cleckley

  … A. from Anderson College (1962). Cleckley served during the Vietnam War era in the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General Corps … for the Advancement of Colored People for his championship of "civil rights":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1189. In …

• The Great Society

  … and racial injustice, and its "War on Poverty":http://www.wvencyclopedia … safety; and major strides in "civil rights":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org … and popular. Although the "Vietnam War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles …