Apartheid in South Africa

Opelousas, Louisianas’ Black Codes passed in 1865 stated that, no negro could come into town, live, rent, or use land in town, go to any public meeting in town without a pass from a government official or white boss, they also couldn’t carry a gun unless in the military (Doc. B) a white person could do these things by their own choice. Former slave Henry Adams said to the U.S. Senate in 1880 that, he once asked the madam “‘ where was the boss?”’ She said, “‘You should say ‘master’ You are not free... and you shall call every white lady ‘missus’ and every white man ‘master’.’” (Doc. C.), many would say African Americans weren’t free because whites didn’t think they

During the period of Apartheid in South Africa between 1948 and 1994 the reactions of the South African citizens towards the legal separation of races varied depending on race, ideals and time period. After gold and diamonds were fud inSouthAfrica both the dutch and British wanted the land to themselves, leading to the Boer War from which the Dutch farmers emerged victorious. Following the Boer War and the creation of the Union of South Africa in 1910, the Dutch Boers gained control over the majority of the land in the previously British Cape Colony along with the settlements they had already built, the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. Blacks in South Africa made up about eighty percent of the population but only lived on ten percent of

State governments started making laws called black codes to limit what rights the newly freed slaves had and what they could do. In Document 2, it shows one of the Southern state’s list of black codes. The black codes stopped the African Americans from doing things they were now allowed to do under the federal government. This document was addressing blacks

Although some black men had some freedom, they still had a various amount of restrictions. In Doc. B, “...he shall not be free to dine and drink at our board… to share with us… the jury box… to represent us in the legislature - to attend us at the bed of sickness… to mingle with us in the concert-room… or to marry with our daughters. ” . The evidence in Document

Frederick Douglas spoke about these problems in 1876. He talked about how slaves were freed and left to live on their own - without land - and lead to face “the wrath of our infuriated masters”, referencing the many attacks against the freed people. Soon after the Civil War, laws known as the “Black Codes” were enforced. These laws prevented African-Americans from renting or keeping a house, holding public meetings, as well as carrying a weapon. These laws showcased the unfair hatred that Southerners directed towards newly freed men and women, similarly to the Jim Crow laws. The Jim Crow laws divided our country and as opposed to separating north and south, they parted the south between blacks and whites. This action was an enormous step back in our country’s fight for equality. If you were an African-American, you could not eat, go to the bathroom, or go to school in the same place as a white person. These actions and more were deemed against the law and lead to fines. After finally being considered free, rather than being accepted into society, African-Americans were sadly still seen as lesser than white people in America, and lost many rights as a

The 14th Amendment granted freedom and the rights of citizenship to African Americans, but the Black Codes were an attempt at a state-level workaround to this federal law. It was impossible to completely negate the 14th Amendment and many African Americans were given a

The majority of Blacks, in the 1700’s, were slaves on Plantations in South Carolina and other southern states. When leaving the plantation blacks had to show a pass to prove they had permission to leave the planation or, if free they had to carry what were called freedom papers to verify their freedom. In the 1700’s Black people as in its new 20th-century modernity of “stop and frisk” are stopped using racial profiling protocols. Also, they were subject to harassment, interrogation beatings, and even death by lynching (hanging) if they were found to have run away from a plantation

Most of the Africans that were brought to American arrived as slaves who were kidnapped from their homelands in various countries in Africa. These individuals were stripped of their name, heritage, and belief system to be regarded as property to the slave owners. The dominant white majority believed that they were superior to the Africans based solely on the color of their skin. The creation of laws such as the Nationalization Act of 1790, would keep blacks in their place by limiting U.S. citizenships to whites only. Although slavery was abolished with the passage

They created and enforced the policies for ‘native segregation’. They believed in territorial segregation being a humane way of racial domination in southern Africa, rather than establishing ‘native reserves’ which could interfere with their access to African labor (109-110). In 1910, the British imperial authorities segregated the blacks from whites, making it clear that there is separate and unequal segregation, leading to the creation of Apartheid. In the southern United States, segregation was less direct than in South Africa. In southern United States the Africans are considered the “white man’s burden” (110). White people victimized the blacks, participated in hate crimes and brutality, which was even worse than South Africa. White supremacy in America originated from the slave trade, while South Africa’s beliefs and treatment towards white supremacy was established through colonizing the region (111). The treatment and laws towards black people in South Africa in present day have now changed. Black people have now obtained leadership positions in the government. These people try in all their efforts to aid the people affected by three centuries worth of deprivation, expropriation, and exploitation, but there continues to be antisocial behaviors towards the black community (143). In the 1920s, American working-class whites’ jobs were protected and given security in preventing competition against the African Americans. In 1924, new laws were passed including the ‘industrial color bars’ and ‘civilized labor’, which provided whites with exclusive access to skilled and desirable jobs

Apartheid was kept in place through various means, mainly the use of legislation and technology. The main way that the government implement apartheid was through legislation. There were countless laws and bills passed, which over time stripped black Africans' of their rights, all the while favoring the white elite of South Africa. Race laws affected every social aspect of life in apartheid South Africa. The early policies that were made when the National Party first came into power set the base for the later policies to take effect and branch off. These policies embodied what the apartheid regime was all about, notably two of the earliest policies made, being the Population Registration Act and the Group Areas Act. Both were made in 1950, with the Population Registration Act requiring al South Africans to be racially classified into either white, black or colored, and the Group Areas Act which geographically separated the racial groups.

The government of South Africa played a huge role in apartheid. During apartheid the government of South Africa worked to take away the citizenship of the Blacks with the laws (“History of South Africa in the apartheid era”). “Social rights, political rights, educational opportunities, and economic status were all determined by the group a person belonged to” (History of South Africa in the apartheid era). Black people were denied by the government the option of appealing courts against forced removals (“History of South Africa in the apartheid era”). Since the government had established laws prohibiting social contact between the races separate schools and public places were set up for the different races (“History of South Africa in the apartheid era”). The government even tried to segregate churches in 1957 but failed (Pascoe, 80)

Authorised by P.W. Botha, apartheid took control and manipulated the South African political system in favour of the white minority, illustrating the 40 years of Apartheid where majority of the coloured population had feared and suffered through the 148 harsh Apartheid policies and legislations. One of those policies were

This was a violation of international law; the South African government passed certain laws that created “apartheid”. The apartheid means “apartness or separateness” The first of many apartheid laws were passed in 1948. These racial and apartheid laws were part of every aspect of social life. These laws included no marriage between blacks and whites. They even segregated white only jobs.

Apartheid in South Africa was not started in 1948 with the election that saw the National Party (NP) take office, it was just a term coined by NP after the publication of the Sauer Report of 1946. The Sauer report recommended consolidation of land reserves, controls over African urbanization and segregation of coloreds, Indians and blacks. Apartheid was more than just segregation though, it was a ruthless way of controlling a majority of the population within the country. The reason being it was supported by those who had power within the government, and those that had the power of the vote as well. National Party supporters such as teachers, clerics, and large scale farmers, as well as those white urban trade unions that had lost work to black South Africans during World War II where all behind this movement. Apartheid was a movement segregation, and it spread quickly, by increasing demands of all non-white South Africans with governmental acts. These acts such as the Group Areas Act of 1950 which enforced segregated living spaces, and the Bantu Education Act of 1953, which put all African schools under the control of the Department of Native Affairs, which regulated education and imposed a uniform curriculum which was to prepare students towards more manual type labor. These acts and other like them pushed Africans to start to up protest, at first peacefully through non-violent protest, but eventually violence was seen as the only way. These protest led the

The music from the Apartheid in South Africa was extremely important in the movement for freedom. At a time when there wasn’t much money for the Anti-Apartheid Movement, music became the most important weapon. The songs sung all over South Africa in resistance to the Apartheid intimidated the government more than weapons and violence could because of the powerful meaning behind each song that unified and strengthened the resistance. Artists all over South Africa wrote songs speaking out against the government and its cruel laws and although many of them were banned, the people of South Africa heard them and sang them to protest the rules of the government.