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The former state 4-H camp for African Americans was named for which two prominent black leaders?
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In what county was the African American tuberculosis sanitarium located?
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Which church sent missionaries to help enslaved people right after John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859?
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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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This Monroe County native was one of the first Black bishops in the Methodist church nationally.
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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 one of the following events was Charleston attorney T. G. Nutter NOT involved with?
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Which one of the following did NOT publish a newspaper?
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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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Which one of these universities was founded on the site of a former slave plantation?
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