U.N CONDEMNS APARTHEID

EVENT

• 1962- United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution condemning South Africa’s racist apartheid policies
• Called on all its members to end economic and military relations with the country.

RESTRICTIONS

• racial segregation and political and economic discrimination against South Africa’s non-white majority
• Blacks were forced to live in segregated areas and couldn’t enter whites-only neighborhoods unless they had a special pass.

MASSACRE

• The 1960 massacre of unarmed blacks in South Africa
• 69 blacks were killed and over 180 were injured
• The international movement to end apartheid gained wide support.

TIMES HAVE CHANGED

• After decades of strikes, sanctions and increasingly violent demonstrations, many apartheid laws were repealed by 1990
• 1991- the South African government repealed all remaining apartheid laws
• Wrote a new constitution