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This West Virginia native was a NASA mathematician who made important calculations for the United States' early space program.
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What was the first public school in West Virginia for Black children?
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Which one of the following was NOT the site of a desegregation protest?
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In which county did White students walk out of school in protest of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 desegregation decision?
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What Keyser native co-wrote an opera about a slave revolt in Haiti?
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Which one of the following events was Charleston attorney T. G. Nutter NOT involved with?
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Which Charleston native was the first African American in the United States to serve as a state librarian?
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What was the first known Black-owned newspaper in West Virginia?
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This Wheeling native played bass in Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys?
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What jazz musician has been the long-time pianist for the radio program Mountain Stage?
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