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Capture and Enslavement of African men, women and children who were taken to the America’s for work on plantations and in mines.
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Jim Crow laws - state laws, aimed at enforcing segregation between whites and blacks in the use of transport and public facilities and in the outlawing of marriage between the two racial groups.
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This was the first year since 1881 without a lynching.
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In 1957, 9 black students were chosen to attend a previously white-only high school. Instead of being welcomed with open arms, they were threatened and assaulted by white students & residents in the area of the school. Even hundreds of troops were assigned to protect the 9 black students from being killed.
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US troops were ordered to Little Rock, Arkansas, so they could stop colored students from being harrassed at a previously all-white school.
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Racism was no longer allowed in voting.
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Inter-racial marriage was no longer illegal.
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The Fair House Act aimed to stop racism in housing.
