General
A Brief History of African-Americans in West
Virginia
A Timeline of African-American History of West Virginia
Celebrating Lives: A Glimpse at African-Americans in West Virginia
History of the American Negro
"An 'Ever-Present Bone of Contention': The Heyward
Shepherd Memorial," by Mary Johnson (West Virginia History)
Illustrated Story of Beautiful Kanawha Valley, 1923," by Edward A. McGhee
Slavery
Antebellum Slavery
Daring Escape on the Underground Railroad (Time Trail)
"Slavery in Present West Virginia in 1860," by Barbara Louise Emmerth (West Virginia History)
African-American Population of Present-Day West Virginia Counties
in
1860
House of Delegates Proceedings on the
Abolishment of Slavery, January 30, 1865
House of Delegates Proceedings on the
Abolishment of Slavery, February 1, 1865
Senate Proceedings on the Abolishment of
Slavery, February 3, 1865
Letter From Wheeling Regarding the
Abolishment
of Slavery in West Virginia
Businesses and Institutions
J. R. Clifford and the Pioneer Press Newspaper
Pioneer Press Editorials, by J. R. Clifford
Establishment of the West Virginia Colored Tuberculosis
Sanitarium (Time Trail)
"Deaths at the West Virginia Colored Tuberculosis
Sanitarium
at Denmar" (West Virginia History)
List of African American Hospitals, Physicians,
and Dentists in West Virginia in 1922
Bachelor Benedict Club
Education
Early Negro Education In West
Virginia
Storer College Catalog, 1869
(Xso1.1:1869)
Storer College
"Alma Mater," written by Don Redman (Xso1.2:g5)
"Storer College Room Historic Exhibit Unveiled"
A Brief Historical Sketch of Storer College
"The West Virginia Colored Institute"
Legislative Act Creating West Virginia Colored
Institute
"A West Virginia Dilemma: Martin v. Board of
Education, 1896," by Douglas C. Smith (West Virginia History)
West Virginia Colored Orphans Home
Opening of the West Virginia Normal and Industrial School
for Colored Orphans (Time Trail)
Jared Arter and the West Virginia College and Seminary at
Hilltop (Time Trail)
Civilian Pilot Training Program at West Virginia State
College (Time Trail)
"On the Homefront in World War II: Soldier-Scholars at
West Virginia State College," by Louis E. Keefer (West Virginia History)
School Integration in West Virginia
Integration of West Virginia's Teachers' Associations (Time Trail)
Violence at Bluefield State College
Civil Rights
Niagara Movement Meets at Storer College in Harpers Ferry
Charleston Lawyer Blocks Premiere of Birth of a Nation (Time Trail)
Brown vs. Board of Education:
Supreme
Court Decision
Brown vs. Board of Education:
Petition to
the Circuit Court for Kanawha County
Brown vs. Board of Education: Brief
On
Behalf Of Plaintiffs In Error
"Negroes Seek Court Order Authorizing Their
Use of Charleston Public Library"
"Hudson Denies Negroes Use of Public
Library"
"Negroes Have Right to Use Local Library, Is
Supreme Court Ruling"
West Virginia Upholds Anti-Lynching Law (Time Trail)
School Integration in West Virginia
Integration of West Virginia's Teachers' Associations (Time Trail)
Elgin Baylor Boycotts Basketball Game in Charleston
Integration of Charleston Lunch Counters (Time Trail)
Letter, CORE to Associated Dry Goods Assocation, November 6, 1958
Letter, Gordon Carey to Elizabeth Gilmore, January 22, 1959
Protest Flyer (Elizabeth Gilmore Collection, Ms2003-083)
"State College Students Stage Sitdown Here"
"Store Revises Eating Policy"
"Mayor Hails 'Integration' At Diamond"
"Along U. S. 60: 50 Eating Places Refuse Negroes"
Legal Cases
Taylor Strauder Case (Time Trail)
"Horrible Murder" (Taylor Strauder Case)
Supreme Court Case, State v. Strauder
Brown vs. Board of Education:
Supreme
Court Decision
Brown vs. Board of Education:
Petition to
the Circuit Court for Kanawha County
Brown vs. Board of Education: Brief
On
Behalf Of Plaintiffs In Error
"Negroes Seek Court Order Authorizing Their
Use of Charleston Public Library"
"Hudson Denies Negroes Use of Public
Library"
"Negroes Have Right to Use Local Library, Is
Supreme Court Ruling"
West Virginia Upholds Anti-Lynching Law (Time Trail)
Sports
First State Basketball Tournament for Black Athletes (Time Trail)
West Virginia State College Wins the National Black Basketball Championship (Time Trail)
Elgin Baylor Boycotts Basketball Game in Charleston
Individuals
Biography of Jared Maurice Arter
Fannie Cobb Carter
Cornelius Charlton
Biography of J. R. Clifford
John Warren Davis
Biography of Martin Delany
Biography of Elizabeth Simpson Drewry
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Biography of Hal Greer
Hanging of John Hardy
Roscoe C. Harrison
John Henry
Death of Former State Law Librarian James Arthur Jackson
J. McHenry Jones
Martin Luther King in West Virginia
Lawson Family Genealogy
Biography of Charles E. McGhee
Leon Miller
Biography of Mildred Mitchell-Bateman
Biography of John C. Norman, Jr.
Christopher Payne
Dick Pointer and the Attack on Fort Donnally
Byrd Prillerman
Biography of Samuel W. Starks
Leon Sullivan
Booker T. Washington
Carter G. Woodson
