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Sherrard Clemens

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At the Virginia State Convention in 1861, this delegate defended himself against accusations that he had sent incendiary documents to free African Americans under his congressional frank.

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Matthew W. Clair, Sr.

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This Union native was one of the two first African-American bishops in the Methodist church, and led the construction of the present Asbury United Methodist Church in Washington, D.C.

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Elizabeth Simpson Drewry

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This woman was the first African-American woman elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates.

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Charlene Marshall

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This woman is credited as the first African American woman to serve as mayor of a West Virginia town.

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Barbara Harmon-Schamberger

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This African American was the first woman from West Virginia University to become a Rhodes scholar.

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Hamilton Hatter

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This Storer College graduate was the first principal of Bluefield Colored Institute, now Bluefield State College.

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Franklin Cleckley

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Who was the first African American to serve on the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals?

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Irene Berger

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This circuit court judge is the first African American to serve as a federal judge in West Virginia.

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The Niagara Movement

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This African American civil rights organization met on the campus of Storer College in Harpers Ferry in August 1906.

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Marie Foster Gnage

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This current president of WVU-Parkersburg is the first African American woman to become president of a college or university in the state.

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John Frederick Matheus

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This West Virginia State University professor wrote the libretto for the opera \"Ouanga,\" first performed in 1932.

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Dick Pointer

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This African American slave helped defend Fort Donnally in 1778.

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Mildred Mitchell-Bateman

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In 1962, she became the first African-American woman to be named to a high-ranking office in West Virginia state government.

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Charleston.

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Tony Brown, the commentator of the PBS series Tony Brown's Journal, was born in this Kanawha County community.

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Martin Delany

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This Charles Town native wrote The Condition, Elevation, Emigration and Destiny of the Colored People in the United States.

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Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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This African-American scholar was valedictorian of the class of 1968 at Piedmont High School.

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John Norman

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A famous African American cardiovascular surgeon and pioneer in organ transplant techniques is:

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Harold Smith

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This McDowell County teacher was the first African-American president of the West Virginia Education Association.

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Martinsburg

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Ramer Memorial High School was a school for African-American children in this town.

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Christopher Payne

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This Monroe County native, who was born into slavery, served as Consul General to the Danish West Indies from 1903 to 1917.

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West Virginia State College

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On March 13, 1948, this team won the national black college basketball championship.

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J. McHenry Jones

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This former principal of the West Virginia Colored Institute (now West Virginia State College) was the first African-American in West Virginia to publish a novel, the 1896 publication, Hearts of Gold.

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Anne Spencer

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This noted African-American poet of the Harlem Renaissance, whose poems include \"White Things\" and \"Before the Feast of Shushan,\" grew up in Bramwell.

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Carter G. Woodson

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This educator, who is known as the \"Father of Black History,\" was dean of West Virginia State College from 1920 to 1922.

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Carter G. Woodson

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This former Huntington resident is known as \"the father of Black History.\"

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Parkersburg

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The first public school for African-American children in the South was established in this West Virginia town.

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Kimball

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The first structure in the U.S. to honor African Americans who served in World War I was built in this McDowell County community.

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Mattie Lee

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This woman was West Virginia's first African-American female physician.

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Parkersburg

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The Sumnerite African-American History Museum and Multipurpose Center commemorates Sumner School, the first free school for African Americans in present-day West Virginia. In what Wood County community was the school located?

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Frederick Douglass

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What well-known black abolitionist gave a speech at Storer College in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, on May 30, 1881, about John Brown?

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Hal Greer

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This Huntington native is the only African-American born in West Virginia to be inducted in a major sports hall of fame.

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John W. Davis

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This distinguished educator and civil rights leader served as president of West Virginia State College from 1919 through 1953.

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West Virginia State College

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In 1939 this West Virginia school became the first black college to establish a Civilian Pilot Training Program.

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Christopher H. Payne

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In 1896, this man became the first African American elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates.

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Jared M. Arter

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This former slave was the principal of an African-American school at Hill Top, Fayette County, from 1908 to 1915.

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Minnie Buckingham Harper

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Who was the first African-American woman to serve in a legislative body in the United States?

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Storer College

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What was the name of the first African-American college in West Virginia?

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