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| Location | US 52, Kimball, West Virginia |
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| Coordinates | 37°25′31″N 81°30′24″W / 37.42528°N 81.50667°W |
| Built | 1928 |
| Built by | Boone, Eason & Woods |
| Architect | Hassel T. Hicks |
| Architectural style | Classical Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 93000227 |
| Added to NRHP | April 09, 1993[1] |
The World War Memorial in Kimball, West Virginia commemorates African Americans who served in World War I. The building sits on a hill in Kimball, a town in McDowell County, West Virginia. Constructed in 1928, the site was the first memorial of African-American veterans in the United States.[2]
Many African Americans worked as coalminers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. As of 1920, McDowell County had the largest population of African Americans in the entire Appalachian region.[3] 1,500 men from the county were among the 400,000 African Americans who volunteered for service during World War I.[2]
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ a b Steelhammer, Rick (2011-07-04). "Memorial tells story of black World War I troops". The Charleston Gazette (WV).
- ^ "Kimball WWI Memorial". Clio. Retrieved 2021-03-08.