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Who was West Virginia's first Black legislator?
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What was the first college in West Virginia formally to train Black teachers?
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She was the first Black woman to serve as a member of a state legislative body in the United States.
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During this decade, the last all-Black schools in West Virginia were closed due to the integration of public education.
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By about how much did West Virginia's Black population decrease between 1940 and 1980?
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Which Black lawyer won an early school discrimination lawsuit in 1887
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Hamilton Hatter was the first principal of this Historically Black College or University?
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Who is known as "West Virginia's First Lady of Gospel Music?"
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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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