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Sojourner Truth gave 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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NAACP
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Paul Lawrence Dunbar publish Lyrics of a Lowly Life.
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The first training of the Tuskegee Airman established.
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The first African American played 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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the first African American president elected in the United States.
President Obama
2008 he was elected, 2009 he was President