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  2. Population Registration Act, 1950 - Wikipedia

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    The Population Registration Act of 1950 required that each inhabitant of South Africa be classified and registered in accordance with their racial characteristics as part of the system of apartheid. [1][2][3] Race classification certificate issued in terms of the Population Registration Act. Explanation of South African identity numbers in an ...

  3. Reservation of Separate Amenities Act, 1953 - Wikipedia

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    Durban beach sign in English, Afrikaans, and Zulu, declaring the beach "Whites only" Before the enactment of the Act in 1953, the courts in South Africa, applied common law, in the absence of any other law to challenges concerning race and use of amenities basing their decision on one of the presumption of equality between the different races in the country.

  4. Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, 1949 - Wikipedia

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    Act to prohibit marriages between white and black people, and to provide for matters incidental thereto. The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, Act No. 55 of 1949, was an apartheid -era law in South Africa that prohibited marriages between "whites" and "non-whites". It was among the first pieces of apartheid legislation to be passed following ...

  5. Group Areas Act - Wikipedia

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    Group Areas Act was the title of three acts of the Parliament of South Africa enacted under the apartheid government of South Africa. The acts assigned racial groups to different residential and business sections in urban areas in a system of urban apartheid. An effect of the law was to exclude people of colour from living in the most developed ...

  6. Bantu Education Act, 1953 - Wikipedia

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    The Bantu Education Act 1953 (Act No. 47 of 1953; later renamed the Black Education Act, 1953) was a South African segregation law that legislated for several aspects of the apartheid system. Its major provision enforced racially-separated educational facilities; [1] Even universities were made "tribal", and all but three missionary schools ...

  7. Franklin D. Roosevelt and civil rights - Wikipedia

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    The Army had been segregated since the Civil War, and the Navy since the Wilson administration. But by 1940, the African-American vote had largely shifted from Republican to Democrat, and African-American leaders like Walter Francis White of the NAACP and T. Arnold Hill of the Urban League had become recognized as part of the Roosevelt coalition.

  8. Pass law - Wikipedia

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    The law stipulated where, when, and for how long a person could remain. [10] The document was similar to an internal passport, containing details on the bearer such as their fingerprints, photograph, the name of his/her employer, his/her address, how long the bearer had been employed, as well as other identification information. Employers often ...

  9. Anti-Chinese sentiment in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The billboard behind is full of inflammatory anti-Chinese broadsheets. Anti-Chinese sentiment in the United States began in the 19th century, shortly after Chinese immigrants first arrived in North America, [1] and continues into the 21st century. It has taken many forms throughout history, including prejudice, racist immigration restrictions ...