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With support from Cable Partners this weekend, we traveled to charleston, West Virginia. Coming up in the next hour we speak with local authors about the citys history starting with the link to booker t. Washington. In 20 minutes the Chemical Spill that contaminated charlestons water system and in 50 minutes the teacher strike. We begin with booker t. Washington. Booker t. Washington, the spokesman and leader of africanamericans in america, at the time, had horrible jim crow race codes in the south. That didnt happen in West Virginia. What he observed in his boyhood heroes was the building of a black middle class that became his path, his career path from teske to being a National Celebrity. Booker was born south of corona, virginia, 225 miles from here. And those nine years he was a slave boy, he didnt have pants, he wore a slave boy shirt, shoes, across the top, he wanted very much to go to school and he wasnt able to do that. He left the farm in 1865 after the civil war end, there w

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