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).

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

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 ...