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Sojourner Truth Sojerner Truth ave her famous “Ain’t I a Woman” speech in Akron, Ohio.
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President Abraham Lincoln gave the Emancipation Proclamation
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Ohio native and famous poet PaPaul Lawrence Dunbar publish Lyrics of a Lowly Life
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NAACP was founded
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the first training of the Tuskegee Airman
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Jackie robinson was the first black person to play baseball
Jackie robonson played baseball -
Rosa Parks Refuses to leave her seat.
Rosa parks refused to leave her bus seat and was jailed -
Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.
Martin Luther King gave an equal rights speech -
Thurgood Marshall became a Supreme Court justice
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the first African American president elected in the United States
Barak Obama was elected as the first black