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 * 1775: First abolitionist society in U.S. founded
* Sidney Poitier becomes first Black to win Academy Award for Best Actor - 1964
* Slavery abolished in the District of Columbia - 1862
* 1983: Alice Walker wins Pulitzer Prize for The Color Purple
* Indians and African Americans defeated at the battle of Sewanee - 1818
* More than 200 Black Union troops massacred by Confederate forces - 1864
* 1972: Major Davidson becomes first black to lead an army division
* 2010: Dorothy Height dies
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