APARTHEID
"Apartheid is upheld by a phalanx of iniquitous laws, such as the Population Registration Act, which decrees that all South Africans must be classified ethnically, and duly registered according to these race categories."
-Bishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Prize Winner
Source: Nobel Lecture, NobelPrize.org
Apartheid in South Africa was an era of extreme inequality between whites and colored people. Laws prohibited interracial relationships and demanded that people of different races be in separate designated areas.
A bus solely for "Non-Europeans"
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Blacks that refused to carry their Identification Documents (shown below) were shot and killed.
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"One day Ashe was followed by a young boy as he walked in the city. When he finally asked him what he was doing, the boy said that he had never seen a free black man." |
Source: South African Freedom Songs, Smithsonian Museum
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