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Africans introduced to America
The first slave is brought into the Virginia colony (Jamestown). -
13th Amendment
The 13th Amendment is signed into the constitution with a loophole in which the country is allowed to enslave convicts. -
Jim Crow Laws
Set of laws that made black people "Separate, but equal" and further discouraged African Americans -
Civil Rights Act
Act that ended segregation must too late and made it appear as though America was done attacking black people. -
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The War on Drugs
A war on drugs in which targeted minorities to send them into prison and give them harsh crimes.