Apartheid formalized in South Africa
May 26, 1948
The National Party won the South African election on a platform of racial separation and within months began passing laws assigning every citizen to a racial group and separating homes, schools, buses, and beaches. Black South Africans would need passes to enter white cities. A legal system of racial segregation had been built.
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