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Who was the first licensed Black funeral director in West Virginia?
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What organization led sit-ins that integrated most lunch counters in downtown Charleston in 1958?
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School segregation was prohibited nationally in 1954. What year did West Virginia remove that clause from the state constitution?
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What was the last segregated hotel in West Virginia?
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Who was the first Black woman to become a solo pilot at West Virginia State's Civilian Pilot Training Program?
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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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What was the first known Black-owned newspaper in West Virginia?
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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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Where was the first building in the country constructed to honor Black World War I veterans?
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