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Justice Marmaduke Herbert Dent (April 18, 1849-September 11, 1909) was born in Granville, Monongalia County, and his childhood was framed by the tumultuous years of conflict over slavery, secession, and the Civil War. In 1867, Dent enrolled in the first class at West Virginia University and later received the first B.A. (1870) and first M.A. (1873) degrees granted by the university. Dent won election to the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals and served from 1893 to 1905. Although often on the losing side of Supreme Court decisions, Dent was in the majority on the pioneering 1898 civil rights case, Carrie Williams v. Board of Education. He authored the Court’s opinion in the case, ruling that black students were entitled to the same length of school term as white students and that teacher Williams was entitled to the same pay. Long foreshadowing the modern practice of affirmative action, Dent wrote for the Court that, “If any discrimination as to education should be made, it should be favorable to, and not against, the colored people.” Read more at e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1882
Coming very soon! The Settlement of the Greater Greenbrier Valley, West Virginia, by Fred Ziegler.
Civil War history books make great Christmas gifts. The West Virginia Book Company has many great titles in stock and ready to ship: http://www.wvbookco.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=1825
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Author Richard Armstrong presents to an attentive audience at the West Virginia Book Festival.
Our friend, J. Keith Jones, will be at the West Virginia Book Festival tomorrow, Saturday, Oct. 27th, from 8am to 5pm. Stop by and check out his titles including this fantastic collection of first hand accounts from Gettysburg.
Stop by and visit with authors Richard Armstrong and Terry Lowry at our booth at the West Virginia Book Festival. The Marketplace will be open all day on Saturday, Oct. 27th, 8am to 5pm, at the newly renovated Charleston Convention Center.
We are ready! Be sure to visit our booth today and Saturday!
Author Terry Lowry will be signing his book, The Battle of Charleston and the 1862 Kanawha Valley Campaign, at our table at the West Virginia Book Festival, this Saturday, Oct. 27th, at the newly renovated Charleston Convention Center.
Captain Hiram F. Devol of the 36th Ohio Infantry drew a detailed map of Lewisburg the day after the Civil War battle in May 1862. Author Richard Armstrong will have an enlarged version on display as part of his presentation on his new book, The Battle of Lewisburg, at 11:00am this Saturday, Oct. 27th, at the West Virginia Book Festival, Charleston Civic Center.
