Black History Timeline
1849- Harriet Tubman escaped slavery becoming one of the most effective & celebrated leaders of the Underground Railroad
1861- Civil War began
April 9, 1865- Civil War ends
1909- NAACP founded in New York led by W.E.B Du Bois
1920-1930’s- Harlem Renaissance
1936- Louis Armstrong became the first African American to get featured billing in a major Hollywood movie with his turn in Pennies from Heaven.