Piedmont, West Virginia
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Piedmont is a town in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States. It is part of the Cumberland, MD-WV metropolitan statistical area. The population was 716 at the 2020 census. Piedmont was chartered
Downtown Piedmont in January 2014
Route 46 eastbound in Piedmont
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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Henry Louis Gates Jr., popularly known by his childhood nickname "Skip", is an American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor an
Piedmont, West Virginia
…The population was 716 at the 2020 census. Piedmont was chartered in 1856 and the town is the subject of Colored People: A Memoir by Piedmont native Henry Louis Gates Jr. As its name suggests, Piedmont is located at the base of a mountain, in this instance the foot of the Allegheny Front, the eastern edge of the Allegheny…
Gates in 2013
Gates in 2007
Gates, Sgt. James Crowley and President Barack Obama toast at the start of their meeting in the White House Rose Garden, July 30, 2009
Gates speaks on a panel about race in America on the Understanding Our World Stage at the National Book Festival on August 31, 2019