West Virginia Centennial Celebration of the 19th Amendment - On this day in 1928, Minnie Buckingham Harper of Keystone, McDowell County, was appointed by Governor Howard M. Gore to succeed her late
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daily304's podcast: The History Project: Minnie Buckingham Harper - First African American Woman Legislator in United States History
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