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The former state 4-H camp for African Americans was named for which two prominent black leaders?
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What city's Triangle District was home to African Americans and immigrants from many eastern European countries?
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In 1928, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals integrated this city's two previously segregated public libraries.
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Hamilton Hatter was the first principal of this Historically Black College or University?
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Which Historically Black College or University closed in 1955 following the U.S. Supreme Court's integration ruling?
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Which one of the following did NOT publish a newspaper?
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Who is known as "West Virginia's First Lady of Gospel Music?"
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Huntington native and blues singer Mary McClain was the half-sister of what blues great?
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Which of the following compositions by Raleigh County native Bill Withers did NOT receive a Grammy Award?
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On the eve of the Civil War, which county in present West Virginia had the most enslaved people?
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