In 1990, Richards ran for governor, pledging to increase the role of minorities and women in state government as plan of her plan for a "new Texas." Once elected, she made good on her promise by adding African-Americans and women to the Texas Rangers, a law enforcement agency. She also created the state lottery and improved the prison system.
The American Colonization Society (ACS) was formed in 1817 to send free African-Americans to Africa as an alternative to emancipation in the United States.
