1851 - Sojourner Truth Delivers Famous Ain't I a Woman?Speech 1854 - First Black University Founded: Lincoln University 1855 - Frederick Douglass Publishes My Bondage and My Freedom 1857 - Dred Scott Decision Helps Trigger the Civil War 1863 - Lincoln Signs Emancipation Proclamation 1863 - Black Regiment Storms Fort Wagner in the Civil War 1865 - 1869 - 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments Establish Civil Rights for All