Vintage West Virginia; On This Day in West Virginia History, September 21st

September 20, 2022

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Vintage West Virginia

Prominent educator J. McHenry Jones, whose novel Hearts of Gold was the first published by an African-American in West Virginia, was installed as principal of the West Virginia State Colored Institute on September 21, 1898.

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