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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
Antebellum Slavery
Daring Escape on the Underground Railroad
"An 'Ever-Present Bone of Contention': The Heyward Shepherd Memorial"
"Slavery in Present West Virginia in 1860"
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
Lawson Family Genealogy
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
Taylor Strauder Case
"Horrible Murder" (Taylor Strauder Case)
Supreme Court Case, State v. Strauder
"The West Virginia Colored Institute"
Legislative Act Creating West Virginia Colored Institute
"A West Virginia Dilemma: Martin v. Board of Education, 1896"
Opening of the West Virginia Normal and Industrial School for Colored Orphans
Biography of Charles E. McGhee
Jared Arter and the West Virginia College and Seminary at Hilltop
Biography of Jared Maurice Arter
Establishment of the West Virginia Colored Tuberculosis Sanitarium
Early Negro Education In West Virginia
"Deaths at the West Virginia Colored Tuberculosis Sanitarium at Denmar"
Charleston Lawyer Blocks Premiere of Birth of a Nation
Biography of J. R. Clifford
J. R. Clifford and the Pioneer Press Newspaper
List of African American Hospitals, Physicians, and Dentists in West Virginia in 1922
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"
Bachelor Benedict Club
Civilian Pilot Training Program at West Virginia State College
"On the Homefront in World War II: Soldier-Scholars at West Virginia State College"
West Virginia Upholds Anti-Lynching Law
Biography of Elizabeth Simpson Drewry
First State Basketball Tournament for Black Athletes
West Virginia State College Wins the National Black Basketball Championship
School Integration in West Virginia
Integration of Charleston Lunch Counters
Integration of West Virginia's Teachers' Associations
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"
Death of Former State Law Librarian James Arthur Jackson
Biography of Mildred Mitchell-Bateman
Elgin Baylor Boycotts Basketball Game in Charleston
Fannie Cobb Carter
Cornelius Charlton
John Warren Davis
Biography of Martin Delany
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Biography of Hal Greer
Roscoe C. Harrison
John Henry
J. McHenry Jones
Martin Luther King in West Virginia
Leon Miller
Biography of John C. Norman, Jr.
Christopher Payne
Dick Pointer and the Attack on Fort Donnally
Byrd Prillerman
Leon Sullivan
Biography of Samuel W. Starks
Booker T. Washington
Carter G. Woodson


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