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In the year 1851 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 in 1863.
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The first training of the Tuskegee Airman was established.
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Jackie Robinson is the first African American to play in the big leagues.
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat in the front to sit in the black section.
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Martin Luther King Junior give his famous "I have a Dream" speech.
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Barack Obama becomes the first African America President of the United States.