{"product_id":"timelines-from-black-history-leaders-legends-legacies-dk-childrens-timelines","title":"Timelines from Black History: Leaders, Legends, Legacies (DK Children's Timelines)","description":"Erased. Ignored. Hidden. Lost. Underappreciated. No longer. Delve into the unique, inspiring, and world-changing history of Black people.\n\nBlack leaders, writers, civil rights activists, scientists, and more have influenced, inspired, and changed the societies we live in. This history book’s pages are filled with the stories of these historical giants and their contributions to the world.\n\nGrow Your Understanding of Black History\n\nThis children’s book, prefaced by Mireille Harper, introduces children to prominent Black people in history such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Nelson Mandela, Rosa Parks, and Dr. Martin Luther King. The timelines have been individually commissioned, with the stunning visual designs reflecting the essence of that particular historical person.\n\nThis visual reflection from DK Books will compel children to investigate further and understand world history and the important roles Black people played in shaping it:\n\n• Features an equal number of timelines about women and men\n• Explores the amazing stories of incredible figures often ignored by European-focused history\n• Covers key moments in European, Caribbean, North American and African history, taking readers from pre-colonial Africa through the Jim Crow Era and the Civil Rights Movement to today’s Black Lives Matter movement\n• Created, designed, written, and edited by a multicultural team from many different nations, heritages, communities, faiths, and no faiths\n\nFrom Mansa Musa to Barack Obama; learn about more than 100 Black leaders and historical individuals, and discover the 30 timelines from throughout world history in this compelling children’s Black history book. Learn about Lewis Latimer and his integral contributions to the lightbulb, of how Ethiopia avoided colonisation thanks to its brave queen, and many more important moments in world and Black history.\n\nPages of visual representations take children, adolescents, and adults on a trip through history. Stacked with facts and visually vibrant, Timelines From Black History: Leaders, Legacies, Legends is an unforgettable and accessible hive of information on the people and the issues that have shaped Black history.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0744039096\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0744039096.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:DK\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41455082340410,"sku":"DBV.0744039096.G","price":8.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0744039096-0.jpg?v=1781033666","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/timelines-from-black-history-leaders-legends-legacies-dk-childrens-timelines","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}