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•Write your own definition (Your Words),

•Write a sentence using the word.

APARTHEID•Definition:

Law created to enforce segregation of people by race.

•Literally means: “Separateness”

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS (ANC)

•Organization formed by black Africans in 1912 to help bring people of all races together to fight for rights and freedoms.

DISCRIMINATION

•Unfair and unequal treatment of a group

SEGREGATION

•Separation of humans into racial groups

TOWNSHIP

•A residential development that confined non-whites living near or working in white-only communities

•Soweto (South Western Township) Township was a famous example, located in Johannesburg, South Africa.

SHANTY TOWN

•Slum settlement of plywood, corrugated metal, sheets of plastic, and cardboard boxes

•Many non-white Africans were forced to live in shanty towns during Apartheid.