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Sojourner Truth gives her famous speech "Ain't I a woman" in Akron, Ohio
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President Abraham Lincoln gave the Emancipation Proclamation
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Paul Lawrence Dunbar published Lyrics of a Lowly Life
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NAACP was founded
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first training of the Tuskegee Airman
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Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play in a major league baseball team
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat
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Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech
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Thurgood Marshall became a Supreme Court justice
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Barack Obama was the first African American to be elected president in the United States