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Lucy becomes the earliest known black when she writes about the last American Indian attack on her village of Deerfield, Massachusetts.
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Frederick Douglass becomes a free man. After he became a free man, Frederick taught himself how to read and write. He later on helps President Abraham Lincoln pass the Proclamation of Independence.
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First colored person to preform second successful documentary pericardium surgery.
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Madam Walker invents a line of African-American hair products, becoming the first self-made millionaire.
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Rosa Parks is born. She later on becomes the leader of the Bus Boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Harriet Tubman, a slave that helped many other slaves escape using the underground railroad, dies.
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Hattie McDaniel, a famous colored actress. is the first colored woman to receive an oscar for her amazing performance in,"Gone With the Wind."
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Jackie Robinson becomes the first colored person to play with the Dodgers, or in the National Baseball League.
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Ruby Bridges becomes the first colored child to enter a "Whites Only" school.
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Martin Luther King Jr. says his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. He was one of the main factors for helping end segregation.
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Barack Obama becomes the first colored president.
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Muhammed Ali, a famous colored boxer, dies.
