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By about how much did West Virginia's Black population decrease between 1940 and 1980?
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What year did West Virginia enact its first statewide anti-lynching laws?
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In 1928, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals integrated this city's two previously segregated public libraries.
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Which one of the following did NOT lead civil rights protests against businesses?
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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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Which West Virginia governor publicly called for integration in West Virginia following the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954?
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This Wheeling native was one of the most highly regarded saxophonists of the Swing Era, performing with the likes of Fletcher Henderson, Bessie Smith, Cab Calloway, and Dizzy Gillespie.
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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 Logan native first achieved national acclaim after winning the "America's Got Talent" reality TV program in 2011?
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What Piedmont native and Storer College graduate was known as "the little giant of jazz" because of his innovative arrangements laid the foundation for the big band era?
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