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With a focus on South Africa during the Apartheid era and America during the Jim Crow Laws era, we will look at differences and similarities in the treatment of Black people, segregation and the Civil Rights movement.
With a focus on South Africa during the Apartheid era and America during the Jim Crow Laws era, we will look at differences and similarities in the treatment of Black people, segregation and the Civil Rights movement.
Key topics to revise on:
The similarities and differences in segregation in both countries in the time periods
The people, movements, protests and organisations involved in fighting for civil rights
Law enforcement in both countries
The treatment of Blacks by the Ku Klux Klan in America
Methods of intimidation and laws in South Africa
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Use the topics listed here to research the areas you will need for your study sheet
Similarities
Similarities
Both countries have White Supremacy - believing that the Black people are inferior to them.
Public spaces were kept separate so that Blacks and white people did not mix:
- water fountains
- public transport
- theatresPolice brutality - excessive force
No interracial marriage
Laws were made legal to segregate
Differences
Differences
South African government enforced the segregation
USA - laws were enforced only by the South - the North were against this so it wasn't the countries government supporting it
South Africa - schools were designed to educate Black students to only have low-level jobs
USA - Students could learn enough to go to university
South Africa - bigger population of Black people and they were kept separated in townships
USA - more white people are they had to live amongst each otherUSA - Segregation was only in the South
South Africa - the whole country had segregation
south africa
south africa
Apartheid Becomes Law
Apartheid Becomes Law
By 1950, the government had banned marriages between whites and people of other races, and prohibited sexual relations between Black and white South Africans. The Population Registration Act of 1950 provided the basic framework for apartheid by classifying all South Africans by race, including Bantu (Black Africans), Coloured (mixed race) and white.
A fourth category, Asian (meaning Indian and Pakistani) was later added. In some cases, the legislation split families; a parent could be classified as white, while their children were classified as colored.
A series of Land Acts set aside more than 80 percent of the country’s land for the white minority, and “pass laws” required non-whites to carry documents authorizing their presence in restricted areas.
In order to limit contact between the races, the government established separate public facilities for whites and non-whites, limited the activity of nonwhite labor unions and denied non-white participation in national government.
Sharpeville Massacre
Sharpeville Massacre
In 1960, at the Black township of Sharpeville, the police opened fire on a group of unarmed Black people associated with the Pan-African Congress (PAC), an offshoot of the ANC. The group had arrived at the police station without passes, inviting arrest as an act of resistance. At least 67 people were killed and more than 180 wounded.
The Sharpeville massacre convinced many anti-apartheid leaders that they could not achieve their objectives by peaceful means, and both the PAC and ANC established military wings, neither of which ever posed a serious military threat to the state.
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