Apartheid

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Apartheid was a codified system of racial discrimination in South Africa that was in force from 1948 to 1994. While similar in spirit to laws that limited the rights of American blacks until the passing of the Civil Rights Act, apartheid encompassed a far stricter set of rules; it denied non-whites any sort of participation in the democratic process, limited where people could work and live, and went so far as to prohibit sexual liaisons across racial lines.

Apartheid ended in 1994 thanks in large part to black leaders like Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela.

S T U B (The Pet Goat ate it)