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Memphis Tennessee Garrison started this effort.
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Susie Heckel helped establish the American Mountain Theater in this city.
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How many women have served as West Virginia's auditor?
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Which Confederate spy murdered her first Union soldier in Martinsburg on July 4, 1861?
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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 Charleston native starred in the TV show Alias.
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This Bluefield native wrote the novels Storming Heaven and The Unquiet Earth and was the Mountain Party candidate for governor in 2000.
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Fairmont native Doris Piserchia is noted for writing in this genre.
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What Black educator from Tucker County won an important civil rights case more than a half-century prior to Brown vs. Board of Education?
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Who was the first woman to serve on the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals?
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