The similarities between Americans and Africans in the early centuries was that both America and Africa became the first areas of the world to encounter important outcomes from European expansion. They were similar to the fact that Europeans wanted to extract the natural resources from both the countries.
They were different from each other in a way that colonialism affected Africa and transformed America.
No, no U.S. state has this prerogative. The rules for acquisition of United States citizenship are set out in the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, which is a uniform legislation as required by the constitution, which determines in its Article I, section 8, clause 4 that Congress shall have power "To establish a uniform Rule of Naturalization."
We had diff water fountains with blacks having a rundown version of everything the whites had. if they even had it