Thesis
Apartheid was a system of legal racial segregation, or legalized racism. This was due to the fact that the Apartheid government regime gave the white upper class all of the power over all non-Caucasian races and did not fulfill the rights and responsibilities of a government to protect the civil liberties of all of its people. Therefore, those repressed peoples were forced into both violent and non-violent protest of the laws which denied them even the most basic of civil rights, until the government repealed the discriminatory and segregationist laws.