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This abolitionist established Ceredo as a community for freed and fugitive enslaved people.
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By about what percentage did West Virginia's Black population increase between 1880 and 1930?
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What year did West Virginia enact its first statewide anti-lynching laws?
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Which U.S. senator argued at length (a filibuster) against the 1964 Civil Rights Act?
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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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Prior to 1954, what labor organization represented Black teachers in West Virginia?
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What was the first known Black-owned newspaper in West Virginia?
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This Wheeling native played bass in Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys?
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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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Which one of these universities was founded on the site of a former slave plantation?
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