W. W. Trent, who served as West Virginia State Superintendent of Schools from 1933 to 1957, was born on January 31, 1878 in Nicholas County.
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Integration of Schools in West Virginia
"'The Nearly Perfect State': Governor Homer Adams
Holt, the WPA Writers' Project and the Making of West Virginia: A Guide to the Mountain
State"
"Segregation and Integration in McDowell
County"
"Persecution and Acceptance: The Strange History of
Discrimination Against Married Women Teachers in West Virginia"
Guide to the William W. Trent Collection
Document-Based Questions