Similarities Between South Africa And The United States

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During the times of the Jim Crow laws in the southern United States and apartheid in South Africa, blacks were segregated against and treated very poorly. There were a lot of similarities as well as a lot of differences in the way that blacks were treated in both countries. For example, blacks were denied their rights as humans in both countries. In the United States and in South Africa, blacks couldn't attend the same schools as whites and they weren't allowed to vote either. However, there were a few differences between the segregation in both countries. In South Africa, blacks didn't live in the same area as whites and instead lived in poor areas, while in the United States, blacks lived in the same area as the whites, but were only