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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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This abolitionist established Ceredo as a community for freed and fugitive enslaved people.
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Booker T. Washington was a member of this church in Malden.
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Which one of the following was NOT a historically Black college or university?
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By about how much did West Virginia's Black population decrease between 1940 and 1980?
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This Monroe County native was one of the first Black bishops in the Methodist church nationally.
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What Lutheran minister from Clarksburg played an important role in the 1955 Birmingham Bus Boycott in Alabama?
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Which West Virginia governor publicly called for integration in West Virginia following the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954?
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Which of the following facts about Booker T. Washington is NOT true?
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This Huntington native was a star of the Harlem Renaissance and performed with a popular radio quartet called the Four Bon-Bons.
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