The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia ...

J.R. Clifford was many things, an activist, an educator, a journalist, a veteran and the first African-American ... is preserved at the West Virginia and Regional History Center (WVHRC).

Woodson wanted the world to know about the complexity of the historical lives of people of African descent ... Born in Virginia, he labored on a family farm and in West Virginia coal mines ...