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Which resident of Gary started the NAACP's national Christmas Seal campaign?
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Which one of the following was NOT a historically Black college or university?
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What was the main reason for the decline in West Virginia's Black population in the mid-1900s?
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This Monroe County native was one of the first Black bishops in the Methodist church nationally.
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Who was the first Black woman elected to the legislature in West Virginia?
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Hamilton Hatter was the first principal of this Historically Black College or University?
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Which Historically Black College or University closed in 1955 following the U.S. Supreme Court's integration ruling?
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Which of the following was the subject of the 1977 film Banjo Man, narrated by folk/blues musician Taj Mahal?
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Huntington native and blues singer Mary McClain was the half-sister of what blues great?
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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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