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Nuremburg laws
Moved by the understanding that purity of the German Blood is the essential condition for the continued existence of the German people, and inspired by the inflexible determination to ensure the existence of the German Nation for all time, the Reichstag has unanimously adopted the following Law, which is promulgated herewith: Article 1. 1) Marriages between Jews and subjects of the state of German or related blood are forbidden. Marriages nevertheless concluded are invalid, even if concluded abroad to circumvent this law. 2) Annulment proceedings can be initialed only by the State Prosecutor. Article 2. Extramarital intercourse between Jews and subjects of the state of German or related blood is forbidden.

Article 3.
Jews may not employ in their households female subjects of the state of German or related blood who are under 45 years old. Article 4.

1) Jews are forbidden to fly the Reich or National flag or to display the Reich colors. They are, on the other hand, permitted to display the Jewish colors. The exercise of this right is protected by the State.
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Nuremberg Contd
Article 5. (1) Any person who violates the prohibition under 1 will be punished by a prison sentence with hard labor. (2) A male who violates the prohibition under 2 will be punished with a prison sentence with or without hard labor. (3) Any person violating the provisions under 3 or 4 will be punished with a prison sentence of up to one year and a fine, or with one or the other of these penalties. Article 6. The Reich Minister of the Interior, in coordination with the Deputy of the Fhrer and the Reich Minister of Justice, will issue the Legal and Administrative regulations required to implement and complete this Law. Article 7. The Law takes effect on the day following promulgations except for 3, which goes into force on January 1, 1936.

Nuremberg, September 15, 1935 at the Reich Party Congress of Freedom

The Fhrer and Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler The Reich Minister of the Interior Frick The Reich Minister of Justice Dr. Grtner The Deputy of the Fhrer R. Hess

Jim Crow laws

It shall be unlawful for a negro and white person to play together or in company with each other in any game of cards or dice, dominoes or checkers. Birmingham, Alabama, 1930 It shall be unlawful for any white prisoner to be handcuffed or otherwise chained or tied to a negro prisoner. Arkansas, 1903 No colored barber shall serve as a barber to white women or girls. Atlanta, Georgia, 1926 Marriages are void when one party is a white person and the other is possessed of oneeighth or more negro, Japanese, or Chinese blood. Nebraska, 1911 Any person...presenting for public acceptance or general information, arguments or suggestions in favor of social equality or of intermarriage between whites and negroes, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or imprisonment not exceeding six months or both fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. Mississippi, 1920

Jim Crow contd

Separate free schools shall be established for the education of children of African descent; and it shall be unlawful for any colored child to attend any white school, or any white child to attend a colored school. Missouri, 1929
Any white woman who shall suffer or permit herself to be got with child by a negro or mulatto...shall be sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than eighteen months. Maryland, 1924 All railroads carrying passengers in the state (other than street railroads) shall provide equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races, by providing two or more passenger cars for each passenger train, or by dividing the cars by a partition, so as to secure separate accommodations. Tennessee, 1891 The Corporate Commission is hereby vested with power to require telephone companies in the State of Oklahoma to maintain separate booths for white and colored patrons when there is a demand for such separate booths. Oklahoma, 1915

Apartheid
The Apartheid laws In 1948 the National Party, led by Dr Daniel Malan, won a General Election and promised to introduce Apartheid (separation) into South Africa. There were already a number of laws in place, eg. the Native Land Acts and laws against marriages between the races, that separated black and white South Africans. However these were to be developed by a series of GRAND and PETTY Apartheid laws: GRAND APARTHEID LAWS The Population Registration Act - this grouped every South African into a particular race - white, Indian, colored (mixed race) and black (bantu). Only whites could vote, and the opportunities available to each group decreased according to their race. The Mixed Marriages Act - this made it a crime for any marriage to take place between a white person and a person of any other racial group. The Immorality Act - this made it a crime for any sexual act to be committed between a white person and a person of any other racial group. Between 1950 and 1985 there were more than 24,000 prosecutions and nearly half (11,614) were convictions.

Apartheid Laws
The Group Areas Act - this divided South Africa up into different areas where the different race groups could live. 84% of the land was given to the whites, even though they were only 15% of the total population. Blacks were only given 14% of the land, known as the Tribal Homelands, even though they made up over 80% of the population. If you were living in the wrong area you had to move. Usually it was black and colored people that had to move: out of 3.5 million people who had to leave their homes under this act between 1951 and 1986, only 2% were white. The Pass Laws - these laws made it compulsory for blacks to carry pass books (Identity cards) at all times, which allowed them to have permission to be in a white area for a limited amount of time. If they did not have their pass, blacks could be arrested and imprisoned.

What to remember
What leads to laws like these are usually hate, phobia or people who think they are entitled to something land, profits, destiny what have you Sexism, ageism, racism, classism, religion and sometimes people fearing what they dont understand South Africa, America and Nazi Germany are not the only places where laws like these have existed And most importantly hate is not something that we are born with it is taught and unfortunately sometimes it starts with.