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Sojourner Truth gave her famous "Aint i a Woman" Speech in Akron, Ohio.
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Abraham Lincoln gave the Emancipation Proclamation
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Ohio native and poet Paul Lawrence Dunbar publish lyrics of "A Lowly Life"
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The NAACP was founded
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The training of the first Tuskegee Airman was established
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Jackie Robinson was the first African-American to play major league baseball
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat
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Martin Luther King jr. gives his famous "I Have a Dream" speech
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Thurgood Marrshall became a supreme court justice
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Barack Obama was elected the first African-American president of the U.S.