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This Morgantown native was the 100th woman to fly in space.
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She founded Coal River Mountain Watch to battle mountaintop removal mining.
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Muriel Rukeyser wrote "The Book of the Dead" about this West Virginia disaster.
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Cabin Creek Quilts was a self-help cooperative for coal miners' wives and widows located in which county?
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1950s TV star Virginia Ruth Egnor from Lincoln County and Huntington was known to the public by this nickname.
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This performer wrote several songs featured on the soundtrack of the Oscar-winning documentary Harlan County, U.S.A.
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She was a funeral director and civil rights leader in Charleston.
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This Bluefield native was the first Black female president of the American Medical Association.
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This Buckhannon native wrote a diverse range of biographies--from Francis Drake to Rachel Carson--before authoring her Newbery Award-winning book Carry On, Mr. Bowditch.
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This poet, who grew up in Bramwell, played a significant role in the Harlem Renaissance and had her work published in the first edition of the prestigious Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry.
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