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Author Dorothy Cooper

Dorothy Cooper

A Historic Weelunk Contribution: “The Black Community in Wheeling” (1920)

Dorothy Cooper
February 9, 2017
This piece was written in 1920 by Mrs. Dorothy Cooper via Lincoln High School; contributed to Weelunk courtesy of Daryll Clausel, president of the Upper Ohio Valley NAACP. The majority of negroes began t...

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