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Kanawha County Textbook Controversy, 50 Years Later

Thursday marks the 50th anniversary of a Kanawha County Board of Education meeting that became inundated with controversy over new, multicultural textbooks.

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December 20, 1999: Newspaperman Jack Maurice Dies in Charleston at Age 86

Newspaperman Jack Maurice died in Charleston on December 20, 1999, at age 86. Maurice was born in 1913 in the McDowell County coal town of Vivian. During…

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