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On King Speech Anniversary, Obama Nomination Takes Its Place in History

    Forty-five years to the day after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois will formally accept his party's nomination for president. Here are some key landmarks in African American political history:

    1847 Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave, launches an abolitionist newspaper called the North Star.

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