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On This Day in West Virginia History, January 24th

  • Writer: Mountaineer News
    Mountaineer News
  • Jan 24, 2023
  • 1 min read

January 24, 2023

Mountaineer News

Vintage West Virginia

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s visit to home of Mrs. Virginia Jarrett, Charleston, January 1960.

Left to right: Mrs. Ruth Newson, Rev. Moses Newsome, Mrs. Virginia Jarrett,

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mrs. Josephine M. Rayford, James R. Jarrett.


On January 24, 1960, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preached at Charleston's First Baptist Church.


 
 
 

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