The Rise and Fall of Apartheid : <i> A chronology of how apartheid was put together and taken apart:</i>
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1949--Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act passed.
1950--Population Registration Act passed. Immorality Act tightened to ban interracial sex.Group Areas Act (residential segregation) passed.
1951--Mixed-race Coloreds removed from the voting roll.
1952--U.N. condemns apartheid.
1953--Reservation of Separate Amenities Act (which segregated public facilities, from toilets to libraries to swimming pools) passed.
1985--Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act repealed. Immorality Act amended to drop reference to interracial sex.
1990--Reservation of Separate Amenities Act repealed.
June, 1991--Population Registration Act repealed. Group Areas Act repealed.
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