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Women of the Mountain State

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Susie Heckel helped establish the American Mountain Theater in this city.
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Born enslaved, she once owned all of what is now the campus of West Virginia State University.
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Who was the first woman to serve in West Virginia's legislature?
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She was the first woman licensed to practice medicine in West Virginia.
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In 1970, she established the Eco Theater near Hinton as an indigenous mountain theater, using Summers County people as actors.
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This blues singer from Huntington had diamonds from a bracelet implanted into her front teeth.
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Marshall College (now University) President James E. Morrow was the grandfather of this famous person.
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Ruth Boggs taught and helped perpetuate this type of singing in Beckley.
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This Alderson native ran a popular nightclub in Paris, and Cole Porter supposedly wrote a song about her.
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What Fayette County legislator once helped break up an armed robbery at the bank where she worked?
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