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Sojourner Truth gives her famous "Ain't I a Woman" speech.
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President Lincoln gives the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Ohio native and famous poet Paul Lawrence Dunbar published the lyrics of the poem "Lowly Life"
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NAACP is founded.
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The first training of the Tuskegee Airman was established.
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The first ever African American to ever play baseball, Jackie Robinson.
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat.
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Martin Luther King Jr. "I Have a Dream" speech.
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Thurgood Marshall becomes Supreme Court of Justace
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The first African American to take office.
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