She wrote it during a war. in the end, she and a few of her family members went to america to escape the violence.
The colonists could not take over Montreal<span> due to lack of Canadian support.</span>
Although there were several events that gave participation to black people in the governments, these were the most important:
- The Civil Rights Movement in the United States: it was a long, and mainly non-violent, struggle to extend full access to civil rights and equality before the law to groups that do not have them, especially black citizens.
- Little Rock, 1957: Also known as Little Rock Crisis was a key moment in American civil rights movements, following the decision of the Supreme Court in the Brown case, the school committee of Little Rock, Arkansas, voted in 1957 to integrate the school system.
