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In what county was the African American tuberculosis sanitarium located?
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In 1930, approximately what percentage of coal miners in southern West Virginia were Black?
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Which church sent missionaries to help enslaved people right after John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859?
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Which Black lawyer won an early school discrimination lawsuit in 1887
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Where was the second meeting of the Niagara Movement (which evolved into the NAACP) held?
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Which one of the following did NOT lead civil rights protests against businesses?
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Which Wheeling citizen was the subject of a case in which the U.S. Supreme Court used the 14th Amendment to the Constitution to invalidate a state law?
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Which one of the following is a Black funeral tradition in Appalachia?
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This Wheeling native played bass in Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys?
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Where was the first building in the country constructed to honor Black World War I veterans?
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