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Sojourner Truth give her famous “Ain’t I a Woman” speech in Akron, Ohio. -
link to image President Abraham Lincoln gave the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Ohio native and famous poet Paul Lawrence Dunbar publish Lyrics of a Lowly Life.
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NAACP founded.
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First training of the Tuskegee Airman established.
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First african amercian to play major leage baseball.
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Rosa Parks refuse to give up her bus seat.
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Martin Luther King Jr. give his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.
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Thurgood Marshall become a Supreme Court justice.
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First african amercian president.