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Sojourner Truth give her famous “Ain’t I a Woman” speech
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President Abraham Lincoln gives the Emancipation Proclamation
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Ohio native and famous poet Paul Lawrence Dunbar published Lyrics of a Lowly Life
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NAACP was Founded
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The first training of the Tuskegee Airman was established
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Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play for Major League Baseball
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat
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Martin Luther King Jr. give his famous “I Have a Dream” speech
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Thurgood Marshall became a Supreme Court justice
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Barack Obama became president