Collection of facts about the Civil rights movement

This post is a collection of facts about the Civil rights movement (1654-1968). There are 19 facts listed below. Source: Wikipedia

• Attempted to end racial segregation and discrimination in the U.S.
• African Americans were most affected
• American Civil War (1861-1865) led to abolishment of slavery
• Reconstruction Amendments implemented
• Jim Crow laws discriminated against African Americans
• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) upheld Jim Crow laws
• Brown v. Board of Education (1954) invalidated segregated-schooling laws
• Martin Luther King Jr. led protests and civil disobedience campaigns
• Montgomery bus boycott (1955-1956)
• Browder v. Gayle (1956) ruled bus segregation unconstitutional
• Children's Crusade march in 1963
• March on Washington in 1963
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Selma to Montgomery march in 1965
• Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Loving v. Virginia (1967) ruled interracial marriages legal
• Fair Housing Act of 1968
• Black power movement emerged in the 1960's
• Martin Luther King assassinated in 1968

Collection of states involved in the revolutions of 1848

This post is a collection of states involved int he revolutions of 1848. There are 19 states listed below. Source: Wikipedia

• Austrian Empire
• Grand Duchy of Baden
• Lands of the Bohemian Crown
• Kingdom of France
• German Confederation
• Galicia (region)
• Duchy of Holstein
• Kingdom of Hungary
• Ireland (region)
• Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia
• Duchy of Modena and Reggio
• Moldavia
• Grand Duchy of Posen
• Kingdom of Prussia
• Kingdom of Sardinia
• Duchy of Schleswig
• Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
• Cantons of Switzerland
• Wallachia

Collection of facts about the unification of Italy

This post is a collection of facts about the unification of Italy (1848-1870). There are 11 facts listed below. Source: Wikipedia

• Kingdom of Sardinia annexed Italian states and established the Kingdom of Italy
• Led by Camillo Benso and Giuseppe Garibaldi
• Began during the Revolutions of 1848
• First Italian War of Independence (1848-1849)
• Second Italian War of Independence (1859)
• Expedition of the Thousand (1860)
• Victor Emmanuel became King of Italy (1861)
• Third Italian War of Independence (1866)
• Venetian plebiscite of 1866
• Capture of Rome (1870)
• Final states joined Italy in Treaty of Rapallo (1920)

Collection of facts about Holodomor

This post is a collection of facts about Holodomor (1932-1933). There are 6 facts listed below. Source: Wikipedia

• Man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine
• Debated if it was intentional to eliminate a Ukrainian independence movement
• Caused by collectivization of agriculture and Soviet industrialization
• Ukraine was a large grain-producing state and had high quotas
• 4.3 million tons of grain produced in 1932 harvest (7.2 million tons in 1931)
• Deaths: 3.5 to 5 million

List of Roman civilization history posts

This post is a list of Roman civilization history posts for this blog. There are 15 posts listed below by topic and chronologically by post date.

    Roman Kingdom

1. List of kings of the Roman Kingdom

    Roman Republic

1. List of Punic Wars
2. List of rulers in the Roman triumvirates
3. Collection of facts about the Gallic Wars
4. List of Macedonian Wars

    Roman Empire

1. List of Roman emperors in the Julio-Claudian dynasty
2. List of Roman emperors in the Nerva-Antonine dynasty
3. List of capitals in the Roman tetrarchy
4. Collection of facts about the Crisis of the Third Century

    Byzantine Empire

1. List of Byzantine political leaders (level 4 vital articles on Wikipedia)
2. Collection of facts about the Fall of Constantinople
3. Collection of facts about the Gothic War

    Miscellaneous

1. List of Roman civilization historical periods
2. List of Roman political leaders (level 4 vital articles on Wikipedia)
3. Collection of facts about the Roman-Persian wars

Collection of facts about the War of 1812

This post is a collection of facts about the War of 1812 (1812-1815). There are 9 facts listed below. Source: Wikipedia

• United States vs. United Kingdom, Tecumseh's confederacy
• British navy enforced restrictions on American trade in 1807
• Britain provided military support to Indian tribes resisting the U.S.
• U.S. declares war on Britain in 1812
• Britain defeated U.S. invasions in Canada (1812-1814)
• Chesapeake campaign (1813-1814)
• Creek War in American South against Muscogee (1813-1814)
• Washington captured and White House burned in 1814
• Peace terms established in Treaty of Ghent (1814)

Collection of facts about the Gothic War

This post is a collection of facts about the Gothic War (535 - 554 AD). There are 7 facts listed below. Source: Wikipedia

• Byzantine Empire vs. Ostrogothic Kingdom
• Justinian's attempt to recover Western Roman Empire provinces
• Fall of Ravenna (Ostrogothic capital) in 540 AD
• Gothic revival led by Totila (541 - 553 AD)
• Byzantium repels Frank and Alamanni invasions in 554 AD
• Justinian established new Italian government in 554 AD
• Byzantium lost Italy after Lombard invasion in 568 AD