... nation. In 1948, the National Party attained power and its all-white government promptly began the transformation of the already existing racial segregation into laws.1 These laws came to be know as the apartheid, meaning "apartness" in Afrikaans. The non-white majority of population was forced to live in areas segregated from the whites. The laws remained in effect for almost ... democratic resistance to the apartheid state, and during this period Mandela rose to prominence in the 1952 Defiance Campaign against Unjust Laws, which organized mass action tactics of boycotts, strikes, and ...

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