Dorling Kindersley - Timelines from Black History: Leaders, Legends, Legacies

DK LONDON Designer Joe Lawrence Senior Editor Steven Carton Illustrat or Lauren Quinn DK Media Archive Romaine W erblow Picture Re searchers Rituraj Singh, Vag isha Pushp Managing Editor Lisa Gillespie Managing Art Editor Owen Peyton Jones Production Editor George Nimmo Senior Production Contr oller Rachel Ng Jacket Designer Surabhi W adhwa- Gandhi Jackets Design Dev elopment Manager Sophia MTT Publisher Andrew Macintyre Art Director Karen Self Associate Publishing Director Liz Wheeler Publishing Director Jonathan Metcalf Writer and consultant Mireille Harper DK DELHI Senior Jacket Designer Suhita Dharam jit Senior DTP Designer Harish Aggarwal First American Edition. 2020 Published in the United States by DK Publishing 1450 Broadway , S uite 801, New Yor k, NY 10018 Copyright 2020 Dorling Kindersley Limited DK, a Division of Pe nguin Random House LLC 20 21 22 23 24 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 001323546October/2020 All rights reserved. With out limiting the rights under the copyright r eserved above, no part of this publication may be r eprodu ced, s tored in or intr oduced into a retrieval sy stem, or transmitte d, in any form, or by an y means (electro nic, mechanical, photocopying, record ing, or otherwise), without the prior written permission of the copyright owner . Published in Great Britain by Dorling Kinder sley Limited A catalog re cord for this book is available fro m the Librar y of Congress. ISBN 978-0-7440-3909-2 DK books are available at special discounts when pur chased in bulk for sales promotions, prem iums, fund-r aising, or educ ational use. For details, c ontact: DK Publishing Special Marke ts, 1450 Broadway , S uite 801, New Yor k, NY 10018 SpecialSales@dk.com Printed and bound in China For t he cur io us www.dk.com This book was made with Fo rest Steward ship Council certied paperone small step in DKs commitment to a sustainable futur e. For more information go to www .dk .com/our-gr een-pledge Tra veling thr ough time Some dates ha ve BCE and CE afte r them. These are short fo r befo re the Co mmon Era a nd Common Er a. The Common Era dates fr om when peo ple think Jesus Christ w as born. Where t he ex act dat e of an e vent i s not know n, c. is used. This is short fo r the Latin w ord circa, meaning ar ound, and indicate s that the da te is appr oxi mate. Content fro m previous book s Roughly two -third s of the cont ent in this book ha s been published befo re in t he DK books Timelines of Eve rything (2018) and Timelines of E very one (2020). This mat erial has been updat ed with new stories an d images to mor e ful ly re flect Black hist ory . We decided to gat her it toget her with some wonderful new conte nt in ord er to fo cus on Black hist ory and Black people. W e did this to mor e ful ly re flect the iden tities, cultur es, con tributions, and e xperiences of people of Black and mixe d heritages thro ughout history an d aroun d the world. Foc using on Black history Tra ditionally , history has been re corded and written by men fr om priv ileged backg rounds, who often have a Euro pean focu s when they assess the past. T his has meant tha t most history b ooks have hi dden, ove rshadowed , and ex clu ded the exci ting lives and amazing accomplishmen ts of women, and of people fro m diffe rent ethnic and cultural backg rounds. We ve made this book differ ently : here you will find w onderful timelines that fo cus on amazing Black hist ory , and amazing Black people of dif fere nt genders, nat ionalities, beliefs, herit ages, re ligions, and sex ualities.

Forew ord Human origins Early African kingdoms Great Z imbabwe Mansa Musa Askia the Gre at Nzinga Mbandi Later Afr ican kingdoms Slaver y in the US To ussaint L O uverture Olaudah Equiano Mary Seacole Frede rick Douglass Harrie t T ubman Rebecca Le e Crumpler Lewis Howard Latimer African Americans and the U S Civil W ar The 54th Massachuset ts Sarah Br eedlo ve Colonialism in Africa Zora Neale Hursto n Ta ytu Be tul Josephine Bake r Nelson Mandela Maya An gelou The US Civil Rights Mo vement Martin Luther Kin g, Jr . Nina Simone Ellen Johnson Sirleaf F ela K uti Wang ari Maathai Muhammad Ali Oprah Win frey Rosa Pa rks Postco lonial Africa Kwam e Nkrumah and Ghanaian Independence Barack Obama Serena Wil liams LeBro n James Stormzy Mari Copeny Marley Dias Black histo ry stars Glossary Index Acknowledg ments

As a youn g child, my mom wo uld tell me stories about brilliant Black people throughout hist ory. My favo rite was Nann y of the Maroons, a national hero in Jamaica, where my mom was born. Nanny was t he leader of a community of f ormerly enslav ed people known as the Mar oons, who she led to victory agains t British colonizers. She w as a rea l-life heroine . Learning about Nanny and all the re volutio nary people who had come befo re me, I felt inspire d and empow ered fr om a youn g age, and proud of my heritage. When I start ed going to school, ho wever , I foun d that the her oes I knew and lov ed wer ent recogn ized . My school histo ry books and curriculum oft en fe ature d only white people, and men tioned Black people only in the conte xt o f slav ery . I knew that there had been Black leaders, hist orians, activis ts, write rs, politicians, and change-make rsso why we ren t they celebr ated, too? Black histo ry has been ov erlook ed and minimize d in eve ry area o f societ y, and eve n worse, often erase d. Y e t, the contributions of Black people to socie ty influence e very part of ho w we li ve, fr om the art and culture we consume, to the rights we hav e. At the time of writing this, one o f the biggest global mo vement s in histo ry , Black Lives Ma tter , has shone a light on the injus tices tha t sti ll ex ist in socie ty . At a time when Black people are continuing to f ace racism , hostility , and discrimination, it is mor e vi tal than eve r that our his tory be celebra ted. Over the course of this book, y ou will meet a plethor a of inspir atio nal and influential names thr ougho ut history . Spanning the UK, the US, A frica, the Caribbean, and beyond, and cove ring the mighty Af rican empire s, the Colonization o f Africa , the US Civil Rights M ovemen t and more , youll le arn about some of the mos t defining periods in histo ry , and the people who pav ed the wa y for o thers to f ollo wfro m the litera ry legend May a Angelou and the incre dible enviro nmentalist Wa ngari Maathai, to the luminaries of this gener atio n, such as the British ra pper Stormzy , and activists Am ariyanna Copeny and Marley Dias. My hope is that the legends, leaders, and legacies in this book speak to you just like the stories f rom m y youth spok e t o me. Black culture , contributions, and consciousness they ar e the past, the prese nt, and the futur e. Mireille Harper