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How is Apartheid's laws different from The Jim Crow laws?

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Apartheid's laws were a system of racial segregation enforced through legislation by the National Party governments of South Africa from 1948 to 1994, while Jim Crow laws were a series of state and local laws in the United States enacted from the 1870s through the 1960s that mandated racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans.

Although both systems were designed to enforce racial segregation and discrimination, Apartheid laws were more extreme and pervasive, requiring separate housing, education, medical facilities, and other public services for different racial groups. The Jim Crow laws enforced segregation in some areas, but not to the same extent as Apartheid.

Another difference is that Apartheid was a government policy enforced by law and backed up by state institutions, while Jim Crow laws were implemented by individual states and municipalities in the U.S. Therefore, while Apartheid was a national policy, Jim Crow laws varied from state to state and even within towns and cities.

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