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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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Paul Lawrence Dunbar published lyrics of a Lowly life.
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Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play for Major League Baseball.
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Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "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 was elected in the United States.
