Eurena Belcher
Ust 302
9:45-10:50
Apartheid
The word apartheid means "separateness", which was the policy of legal
separation followed in South Africa. The apartheid laws classified people
according to three major racial groups—white; Bantu, or black Africans; and
Colored, or people of mixed descent. The laws determined where members of each
group could live, what jobs they could hold, and what type of education they
could receive. Laws prohibited most social contact between races, authorized
segregated public facilities, and denied any representation of nonwhites in the
national government. People who didn't agree with apartheid were considered as
communist.
Before apartheid became the official policy, South Africa had a long history of
racial segregation and white supremacy. In 1912, the African National Congress
(ANC) was founded to fight these unfair government policies. In the 1950s, after
apartheid became the official policy, the ANC declared......
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