The Power Of One - Research

• Set in Africa during the 1930's and 1940's
• Took place mainly in South Africa
• There was a lot of economic inequality during the time frame it took place
• Their national party tried to delay off bankruptcy by raising taxes on imports
• By 1950 the government had banned between whites and people of other races
• Land acts or laws gave over 80% of the land to the white south Africans 
• To try and limit contact between the races each had their own public facilities
• Socially, at schools, there were different types of schools based on race. There would be a white Afrikaan school, Bantu schools, English schools, etc.
• At the time, Apartheid took place.
• Bantu's were given a district and couldn't travel to other areas that were inhibited by the whites.
• Whites did whatever they could to try and push the Black Africans out of there own country or at least get them as far away from whites as possible.
• Black Africans were called “Bantu’s”
• The white Africans (Afrikaans) also hated Black africans and hailed Hitler.
• People believed that people who were black were black with sin and that was part of the reasons people hated black people.
• The government had divided schools.