Nathan P Brandon K Tyler Z By mrspepperstech700 Mar 1, 1851 Sojourner Truth gave her famous “Ain’t I a Woman” speech in Akron, Ohio http://0.tqn.com/d/afroamhistory/1/0/D/S/sojourner_truth3.jpg Jan 1, 1863 President Abraham Lincoln gave the Emancipation Proclamation http://our-hope.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Abraham_Lincoln.jpg Jan 1, 1896 Poet Paul Lawrence Dunbar publishlished Lyrics of a Lowly Life http://www.biography.com/imported/images/Biography/Images/Profiles/D/Paul-Laurence-Dunbar-9281053-1-402.jpg Jan 1, 1909 The was NAACP founded http://www.ticklethewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/NAACP-Logo.jpg Jan 1, 1941 Tuskegee Airman the first training of the Tuskegee Airman established Jan 1, 1947 Jackie Robinson the first African American to play for Major League Baseball Jan 1, 1955 Rosa Parks Did'nt give up her bus Seat http://www.bapwd.com/Rosa_Parks.jpg Jan 1, 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_z7TOYU3nCi4/TTUPynzv9qI/AAAAAAAAAT8/xrpywAp6uAg/s1600/Dr-Martin-Luther-King-Jr.jpg Jan 1, 1967 Thurgood Marshall become a Supreme Court justice http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/Thurgood-marshall-2.jpg Jan 1, 2008 Obama is elected as the first african american president the first African American president elected in the United States?