History A-Level
Racial segregation and discrimination
What Racial segregation and discrimination means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Racial segregation and discrimination
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Segregation laws and customs restricted Black, Coloured and Indian people in land, work, movement and politics.
Topics that use Racial segregation and discrimination
- The response to apartheid, c1948–59 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Afrikaner culture and nationalism
- apartheid laws
- Defiance Campaign
- Growth of Afrikaner nationalism
- Impact of the Second World War
- International pressures for change
- pass laws
- Treason Trial (1956–61)
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