West Virginia African Americans

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This African American slave helped defend Fort Donnally in 1778.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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