West Virginia Colored Orphans Home (1899-1956)
West Virginia Colored Orphans Home (1899-1956) by Sarah H. Shepherd Founding and Early History In the early 1900s, the booming mine and lumber industries in West Virginia drew Black migrants from the South, a foreshadowing of the Great Migration of African Americans to Northern, Midwestern, and Western states. In the dangerous coal regions of West…
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