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• Extension Homemaker Clubs

  … and Educational Outreach Service clubs in 1999. During the segregation period, a separate system of African-American extension homemaker clubs was organized by agents employed by West Virginia State College (now " …

• 4-H

  … 1921. "Camp Washington-Carver":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/897, the country’s first African-American state 4-H camp, was established in Fayette County in 1942. Today Jackson’s Mill is …

• Fairmont

  … .org/articles/1349 and other industries also developed a pressing need for labor. "African-Americans":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/25 from the American South and immigrants from southern and eastern Europe …

• Fayette County

  … labor. Southern and eastern Europeans and African-Americans from the southern states migrated … /1824 of Montgomery was the first African-American elected to the state … .org/articles/897 opened as a state 4-H camp for African-Americans, the first of its kind …

• ‘‘The Wreck on the C&O’’

  … , which saved the lives of his passengers, became the basis for a ballad attributed to an unnamed African-American engine wiper who worked in the Hinton roundhouse, although there is no direct evidence of the song …

• Sam Jones

  … Jones and Toothpick Jones, was the first African-American to pitch a no-hitter in … joined the Cleveland Buckeyes of the Negro American League in 1947, and signed with the … the first Black pitcher-catcher duo in American League history. As a Chicago Cub, …

• Elizabeth Harden Gilmore

  … , 1910 - April 8, 1986) was an African-American funeral director and "civil … College. She would become the first African-American woman licensed as a funeral … Charleston’s Municipal Auditorium headlined by African-American comedian and Goldwater critic …

• Felix Grundy

  … President Van Buren in July 1838. In the famous case of the mutinied slave ship _Amistad_, Grundy advised that the recaptured Africans be returned to their Spanish masters, a position that proved unsuccessful in the U.S. Supreme Court. Reelected to the …

• Guineas (Chestnut Ridge People)

  … some surnames. Many consider themselves to be of "American Indian":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/841 origins. … all these groups to represent a complex mix of African, Indian, and European (especially Iberian and Mediterranean) ancestry. …

• Hancock County

  … ’s largest unincorporated city, a distinction it retained until 1947, when voters approved a city charter. Weirton is the only American city whose boundaries touch two other state borders, Pennsylvania on the east and Ohio on the west. Chester, with 2, …

• Aviation

  … 1939 a small airplane, a Stinson Reliant owned by All American Aviation, took off from Latrobe, Pennsylvania, hooking a mailbag … discontinued, but the airline went on to greater success. All American changed its name to Allegheny Airlines in 1953 and in …

• Hawks Nest Tunnel Disaster

  … Rukeyser. National news stories were published for several weeks when the extent of the tragedy came to public light. For many Americans outside the state, a January 25, 1936, _Newsweek_ article was the first time they heard of the tunnel deaths taking …

• Baptists

  … the North organized themselves as the American Baptist Missionary Union. The Civil War … Baptist churches were aligned with the American (or Northern) Baptists and the remainder … Virginia Baptist Convention, part of the American Baptist Churches in the USA, …

• Ken Hechler

  … 1947 to 1949, he taught at Princeton University and served on President Harry Truman’s staff from 1949 to 1953. The American Political Science Association made him its associate director in 1953, and in 1956 he joined the campaign staff of presidential …

• Anne Spencer

  … Anthology of Modern Poetry_. In 2000, two of her poems were included in the Library of America's anthology of 20th Century American poetry. Anne Spencer worked as a high school librarian from 1924 to 1946, and continued to write until just before her …

• Uncle Homer Walker

  … ;Vandalia Gathering":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/858 in Charleston, and the Smithsonian Institution’s 1976 Festival of American Folklife in Washington. He was featured in the 1972 documentary film, _Morris Family Old-Time Music Festival_, …

• Alexander Campbell

  … of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and at the same time was elected president of the newly established American Christian Missionary Society (1849), positions he held until his death. Alexander Campbell is buried near the historic Campbell …

• Civil War

  The causes of the American Civil War were varied and complex. Most of the issues at the heart of the sectional conflict, however, can be attributed to the institution of "slavery":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/456, particularly matters …

• Coal Mine Disasters

  … bottom of the shaft. Only 37 were listed as ‘‘Americans,’’ meaning white natives since black miners were identified as … history. Of those killed, only 74 were classified as ‘‘Americans.’’ The resulting public outcry brought Congressional action, culminating …

• Morgantown

  … in the Seneca, Sunnyside, and Wiles Hill neighborhoods. The American Sheet and Tin Plate Company drew immigrants from … racial backgrounds. By 2000, the Methodists, Greek Orthodox, African Methodist Episcopal, Christian Missionary Alliance, Quakers, Roman …

• Mason County

  … Mason County was named for Virginia statesman George Mason, an American founding father and principal author of the Bill of Rights. … bottle-making machine and became a key figure in the American glass industry. The State Hospital for the Colored Insane and …

• John Warren Davis

  … educational circles, particularly in associations such as the Conference of Presidents of Land Grant Colleges for Negroes, the American Teachers’ Association, and the North Central Association. Under Davis’s leadership, the college acquired and managed …

• Doddridge County

  … Convention of 1829–30. Located in the hills of north-central West Virginia, the area was first settled by European Americans about 1800. Indian trails, including the Monongahela-Scioto and the Middle Island trails, village sites, and burial mounds are …

• Public Health

  … , nutrition, home health, and primary care. The West Virginia Public Health Association, an affiliate of the American Public Health Association, was organized in 1924. Members include nurses, sanitarians, physicians, dentists, health educators, …

• Mildred Mitchell-Bateman

  … Health. Subsequently, she was appointed director of the department. Mitchell-Bateman became the vice president of the American Psychiatric Association in 1973 and a member of the Presidential Commission on Mental Health, which developed the Mental …