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Race Relations

As a concerned citizen of the country involved you will argue a case whether the system was created and maintained for economic reasons, social and cultural reasons, political reasons or a combination of all, or some of the above, or none of these reasons.

Investigate the history of Race Relations of either:

The South African Apartheid System (prior to 1990), or
The racial segregation system in the Southern States of the USA (prior to the mid-1960s)

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An African-American man drinking at a "colored" drinking fountain in a streetcar terminal in Oklahoma City, 1939.

1n 1960, In spring of 1960, Ruby Bridges was one of six black children in New Orleans to pass the test that determined whether they could go to the all-white school. U.S. Marshals escorted Bridges to and from school after a a lady in the crowd threatened to poison her.

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Overcoming Apartheid 40 hours of interviews with 60 people involved in the anti-apartheid struggle
Overcoming apartheid, building democracy There is no place for him [the African] in the European community above the level of certain forms of labor. Within his own community, however, all doors are open. For that reason it is to no avail for him to receive a training which has as its aim absorption in the European community, where he cannot be absorbed. Hendrik F. Verwoerd (1954)
South African History Online South African History Online (SAHO) is a non-partisan people's history institution. It was established in June 2000 as a non-profit Section 21 organisation, to address the biased way in which South Africa’s history and heritage, as well as the history and heritage of Africa is represented in our educational and cultural institutions. - See more at: http://www.sahistory.org.za/about-us#sthash.XgBNhKzB.dpuf
Apartheid - History.com After the National Party gained power in South Africa in 1948, its all-white government immediately began enforcing existing policies of racial segregation under a system of legislation that it called apartheid. Under apartheid, nonwhite South Africans (a majority of the population) would be forced to live in separate areas from whites and use separate public facilities, and contact between the two groups would be limited.
Apartheid in South Africa | Living under racial segregation and discrimination The programmes and documents illustrate what life was like for ordinary South Africans as well as revealing key moments in the struggle against this political system [Excellent primary sources]
Apartheid, 25 years after its repeal - Smithsonianmag.com A Look Back at South Africa Under Apartheid, Twenty-Five Years After Its Repeal
Apartheid Museum The Apartheid Museum opened in 2001 and is acknowledged as the pre-eminent museum in the world dealing with 20th century South Africa, at the heart of which is the apartheid story
Apartheid (1948 - 1994) - BlackPast.org BlackPost.org offers researchers, scholars and the general public a wealth of resource materials telling the story of African ancestry through to today.
Apartheid and reactions to it In 1948, the National Party (NP), representing Afrikaners, won the national election on a platform of racism and segregation under the slogan of 'apartheid’.
Apartheid Explained - Encyclopedia.com
Images - South Africa during apartheid 20 photos - great primary sources
Evolution of the white right The emergence of the contemporary extreme white right must be understood against the background of the rise of Afrikaner nationalism, and the divisions that have plagued Afrikanerdom for over a century. Moreover, that throughout their history Afrikaner nationalists tended to believe that the only way to confirm and protect the status and identity of the Afrikaner, and to prevent the group from being dominated by other ethnic groups or races, was to exercise power through self-determination in an ethnically homogenous territory.

Separate is not equal Smithsonian National Museum of American History Behring Center
History of America: racial segregation from 'history.co.uk'
Brown v. Board at Fifty: “With an Even Hand” A Century of Racial Segregation, 1849-1950 From the American Library of Congress
American Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights Timeline UShistory.org
American History Racial Timeline, 1900-1960
Timeline of the Civil Rights Movement, 1850-1970
Oral Histories From Segregated Evansville, IN in the 1960s
USA Race Relations Between the Wars After the end of the American Civil War in 1865, legislation was passed to end slavery. For the first time since their transportation to the nation, black Americans were legally free. Further legislation followed soon after to make it illegal for people to be denied the vote or discriminated against because of the colour of their skin. Despite these good intentions, black Americans still faced hostility, bigotry and persecution.
Race Relations From Encyclopedia.com

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