[1] This study was undertaken at the suggestion of President John W.
Davis, of The West Virginia Collegiate Institute. He appointed a
committee to collect the facts bearing on the early efforts of workers
among the Negroes in West Virginia. The members of this committee were
C. G. Woodson, D. A. Lane, A. A. Taylor, S. H. Guss, C. E. Jones, Mary
E. Eubank, J. S. Price, F. A. Parker, and W. F. Savoy.
At the first meeting of the committee, C. G. Woodson was chosen
Chairman and at his suggestion the following questionnaire was drawn
up and sent out: