tyler Daniel AUSTIN By mrspepperstech700 Mar 1, 1851 Sojourner Truth give her famous “Ain’t I a Woman” speech in Akron, Ohio Mar 1, 1863 President Abraham Lincoln give the Emancipation Proclamation Mar 1, 1896 Ohio native and famous poet Paul Lawrence Dunbar publish Lyrics of a Lowly Life May 1, 1909 the NAACP founded? Mar 1, 1941 the first training of the Tuskegee Airman established Mar 1, 1947 the first African American to play for Major League Baseball Jan 1, 1955 Rosa Parks refuse to give up her bus seat Jun 1, 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. give his famous “I Have a Dream” speech Mar 1, 1967 Thurgood Marshall become a Supreme Court justice Mar 1, 2008 the first African American president elected in the United States