Apartheid

The policy of racial separation used in South Africa from 1948 to 1990.
By extension, any similar policy of racial separation.

Quotations

1963 "When the doors of a business are open to the public, they must be open to all regardless of race if apartheid is not to become engrained in our public [...]" — Lombard v. Louisiana 373 U.S. 267 (Justice William O. Douglas, concurring)

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