Complex sentence: In 1951, the United States recognized these Afro-German children as orphan children under the Displaced Person's Act of 1948, and this same year, the first Afro-German are successfully adopted by Margaret E. Butler in Chicago.
Split into simpler sentences: In 1951, the United States recognized these Afro-German children as orphan children under the Displaced Person's Act of 1948. That year, the first Afro-German child was adopted by Margaret E. Butler in Chicago.