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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 Charles Town native was the only African American commissioned as an officer during the Civil War?
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Who was the first Black woman elected to the legislature in West Virginia?
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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 one of the following did NOT publish a newspaper?
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Who was the first African American to serve as a justice on the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia?
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Which of the following was the subject of the 1977 film Banjo Man, narrated by folk/blues musician Taj Mahal?
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This murder ballad is about a McDowell County railroad worker who supposedly "shot down a man along that West Virginia line."
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What jazz musician has been the long-time pianist for the radio program Mountain Stage?
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On the eve of the Civil War, what was the only county in present West Virginia with no recorded enslaved people?
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