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• Civil Rights

  … The presence of Capehart and other African-Americans in the legislature indicated … NAACP lawyer. He represented the Huntington African-American couple Lewis and Cora … Shenandoah Hotel in Martinsburg, which accepted African-Americans for lodging rooms but …

• Matthew Wesley Clair Sr.

  … 28, 1943) was one of the first African-Americans elected bishop in the predominantly … Episcopal Church, an administrative district serving African-American church members in the … the Republic of Liberia and of the American Advisory Commission on the Booker …

• Keystone

  … .org/articles/27. Boasting the state’s first-ever African-American mayor, as well as "M. T. … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/259, the nation's first African-American woman legislator, lived in Keystone. The fictional town of Annadel in "Denise …

• Kimball War Memorial

  … I, McDowell County alone mustered 1,500 Black soldiers. The War Memorial also became home to the country’s first all Black American Legion Post, named for Luther Patterson, one of the first Black casualties of the war. Designed by architect Hassel T. …

• M. T. Whittico

  … for many years the state’s preeminent African-American newspaper, read by Black and … who rose to power and influence as African-Americans increased in numbers and voting … of McDowell,’’ in his work to establish African-American rights and influence in the …

• Ku Klux Klan

  … emancipation of the slaves. In West Virginia, Klan chapters organized in the late 1860s, after African-Americans acquired political rights and ex-Confederates were disenfranchised. Once voting privileges were restored to …

• Waitman Willey

  … an owner of domestic slaves at his home in Morgantown, Willey spoke eloquently for suffrage for African-Americans at the "1872 Constitutional Convention":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1570 that produced …

• Franklin D. Cleckley

  Justice Franklin Dorrah Cleckley, born August 1, 1940, in Huntington, was the first African-American to serve on the "West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/643 …

• Charles Henry Laws

  … he volunteered for military service and was commissioned 1st lieutenant, becoming the first African-American physician in the U.S. Army … those elected to office. He was the first African-American to give public service to the newly …

• J. R. Clifford

  … Press_, one of West Virginia’s first African-American newspapers. In 1887, Clifford became the first African-American admitted to practice law before the " … elected as a charter member of the American Negro Academy. He served a term as …

• Women’s Lives

  … agriculture and into industrial work. Racial and ethnic diversity among women increased, as African-American migrants from the Deep South and … to train teachers, including a school for African-Americans at Harpers Ferry. Educated black and …

• Wood County

  … www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1014, and "African-American":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … line was established in 1862 for African-Americans, the first public high school … school diplomas to be issued to African-Americans were granted at " …

• Legislature

  … University professor Marie E. Redd in 1998 became not only just the 18th female, but also the first African-American to be elected to the West Virginia Senate. There was a high total of 27 women legislators in …

• Coal Industry

  … counties, the foreign-born and "African-American":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … episodes in the history of the American coal industry occurred in West Virginia … in the general collapse of the American economy. Added to economic pressures was …

• Works Progress Administration (WPA)

  … in Charleston; a therapeutic center for the Morris Memorial Hospital for Crippled Children in Milton; an African-American high school in Morgantown, and various other public buildings around the state; the building and …

• Lewis County

  … s first public school building was erected in 1872. Ten years later, a smaller structure was built for African-American children. Lewis County’s first high school was established in 1895 at Weston. Other high schools were …

• Coalfield Blues

  … guitarist from Logan, blended white and African-American musical influences in the late … County, recorded blues, ragtime, British and American ballads, as well as old-time … outstanding performers of blues in the African-American tradition was "Nat …

• Literature

  … Royall’s outspokenness toward prominent figures and issues anticipates by decades the muckraking tradition that was eventually to characterize American journalism. In addition to her novel, _The Tennessean_ (1827), she is noted for _Letters from Alabama_ ( …

• Malden

  … of the name is not known. African-American families, well before the Civil … helped finance construction of their "African Zion Baptist Church":http://www. … provided near the saltworks. Today, the African Zion Baptist Church, with a model of …

• Museums

  … Exhibition Coal Mine and Coal Camp in Beckley exhibits methods of mining and mining artifacts. There are six African-American museums. The Zion A.M.E. Church and the Freedom Cabin show what life was like when …

• Constitutional Convention of 1861–63

  … on importation of slaves into the state and for gradual emancipation. A compromise provided that no African-Americans, slave or free, could enter the new state. The constitutional convention created a structure for …

• Constitutional Convention of 1872

  … anger in nasty debate about whether to place the U.S. flag in the hall, Bill of Rights content, African-American voting and office-holding, and the free public school system. The influence of moderate former Confederates, the …

• John Frederick Matheus

  … period of the Harlem Renaissance, a flowering of African-American arts and literature in the 1920s. … focused on themes and characters of importance to African-Americans. His plays in particular dealt with the hardships and exploitation characteristic of …

• John Jacob Cornwell

  … solidarity, however, he appointed prominent African-Americans to an advisory committee … to suspected new threats to American security, emerging as a national … open-shop propaganda organization, the American Constitutional Association, punctuated Cornwell’s …

• The Negro Citizen of West Virginia

  … midst of the Great Depression, documents the history of African-Americans in a state that practiced racial … outlines how much of the social infrastructure for African-Americans was won through Black political participation. This was especially true in the …