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  Gave her famous aint a woman speech in Akron Ohio
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  He gave the Emancipation Proclamaiton.
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  Ohio native Paul Lawrence Dunbar published lyrics of a lowly life.
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  NAACP was founded
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  The first training of Tuskegee Airmen
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  Was the first African American to play major leauge baseball
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  Rosa Parks refused to give up a bus seat
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  MLK Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech.
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  He became a Supreme Court Juctice.
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  Obama was eleceted president