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September 5, 1956: Integration of Matoaka High School
September 11, 1939: West Virginia State College pilot training program
September 22, 1917: J. R. Clifford & the Pioneer Press newspaper
September 23, 1958: Integration of Charleston lunch counters
October 15, 1954: West Virginia State Teachers Association
November 5, 1874: Taylor Strauder case allows blacks to serve on juries
November 21, 1968: Bomb explosion at Bluefield State College amidst racial tensions
December 8, 1908: Jared Arter & the black college & seminary at Hilltop
December 10, 1931: Greenbrier Co. lynching & the state Anti-Lynching Law
December 17, 1861: Henry Ruffner & the abolition movement
December 25, 1856: Martinsburg slave escapes via the Underground Railroad
January 15, 1929: Martin Luther King's Birthday (visit to Charleston in 1960)
January 16, 1959: Pro basketball player Elgin Baylor boycotts game in Charleston
February 11, 1888: Birth of WV State College president John W. Davis
February 16, 1917: Establishment of the WV Colored Tuberculosis Sanitarium at Denmar
March 5, 1900: Opening of the WV Normal & Industrial School for Colored Orphans
March 13, 1948: WV State College wins the national black basketball tournament
March 19, 1925: 1st state basketball tournament for black athletes
April 1, 1925: Charleston lawyer blocks premiere of Birth of a Nation