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Sojourner Truth give her famous “Ain’t I a Woman” speech in Akron, Ohio.
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President Abraham Lincoln give the Emancipation Proclamation
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Ohio native and famous poet Paul Lawrence Dunbar publish Lyrics of a Lowly Life
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NAACP founded
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the first training of the Tuskegee Airman established
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the first African American to play for Major League Baseball (Jackie Robinson)
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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 become a Supreme Court justice
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the first African American president elected in the United States
