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College of Media professor's work featured by Google for Black History Month

WVU associate professor Joel Beeson helps a student examine and document the helmet of Monroe Cox, an African American WWI veteran.


A worldwide audience can view aWest Virginia Universityresearcher’s work on Appalachia’s African American history on his virtual exhibit “Soldiers of the Coalfields: The Hidden Stories of Black Appalachians in WWI,”one of 100 stories highlighted by the Google Cultural Institute in celebration of Black History Month.

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