The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act in South Africa, enacted in 1949, banned intermarriage between different racial groups, including between whites and non-whites.

Interracial marriages had been banned in 1949 by the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act.

The Immorality and Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Amendment Act, 1985 ( Act No. 72 of 1985 ) repealed the provisions of the 1957 act that prohibited interracial sex, and repealed the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act.

Apartheid laws passed by the National Party after 1948 included the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, the Immorality Act, The Population Registration Act, and the Group Areas Act, which prohibited nonwhite males from being in certain areas of the country ( especially at night ) unless they were employed there.

When he married a French woman of Vietnamese ancestry, Yolande, he was not allowed to return: The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act ( 1949 ) and The Immorality Act ( 1950 ) made it a criminal offence for a white person to have any sexual relations with a person of a different race.

The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, Act No 55 of 1949, was an apartheid law in South Africa that prohibited marriages between people of different races.

The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Amendment Act of 1968 updated the original legislation to invalidate interracial marriages involving a South African citizen that were contracted in other countries.

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Under the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act of 1949, it was illegal for a white person to marry a person of another race.

* The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act is passed

The group's only previous contact with other parties had been in 1985 when it briefly co-operated with the Conservative Party to oppose the repeal of the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act and the Immorality Amendment Act by P. W.

* 1933 – The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States.

In the UK, the Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985 outlawed the procedure in Britain itself, and the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 and Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation ( Scotland ) Act 2005 made it an offence for FGM to be performed anywhere in the world on British citizens or permanent residents.

The Prohibition of Incitement to Hatred Act 1989, proscribes words or behaviours which are " threatening, abusive or insulting and are intended or, having regard to all the circumstances, are likely to stir up hatred " against " a group of persons in the State or elsewhere on account of their race, colour, nationality, religion, ethnic or national origins, membership of the travelling community or sexual orientation.

* 1919 – The U. S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.

Prohibition was instituted with ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution on January 16, 1919, which prohibited the "... manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States ..." Congress passed the " Volstead Act " on October 28, 1919, to enforce the law, but most large cities were uninterested in enforcing the legislation, leaving an understaffed federal service to go after bootleggers.

However, Purity Distilling did not make rum, but rather specialized in the production of industrial alcohol, which was exempt from the state prohibition laws in effect in 1919, and would later be exempted from the Volstead Act and other national Prohibition laws.

To define the language used in the Amendment, Congress enacted enabling legislation called the National Prohibition Act, better known as the Volstead Act, on October 28, 1919.

* October 28 – Prohibition in the United States is authorized: The United States Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.

The National Prohibition Act, known informally as the Volstead Act, was enacted to carry out the intent of the Eighteenth Amendment which established prohibition in the United States.

Congress passed the Blaine Act, a proposed constitutional amendment to repeal Prohibition, in February.

They include Bombay Devdasi Act, 1934, Devdasi ( Prevention of dedication ) Madras Act, 1947, Karnataka Devdasi ( Prohibition of dedication ) Act, 1982, and Andhra Pradesh Devdasi ( Prohibition of dedication ) Act, 1988.

Prohibition was the law of the land, but it was unpopular ( how many of us oldsters took up drinking in prohibition days, drinking was so gay, so fashionable, especially in the sophisticated Northeast!!

To try to oppose the general religious and moral conviction of such a majority by a legislative fiat would be to invite the same breakdown of law and order that was occasioned by the ill-starred Prohibition experiment.

Still more jealous bitterness was engendered by the O'Banion gang's seizure from a West Side marshalling yard of a freight-car load of Canadian whisky worth $100,000 and by one of the biggest coups of the Prohibition era -- the Sibley warehouse robbery, which became famous for the cool brazenness of the operation.

The Quinte area played a vital role in bootlegging during Prohibition in the United States, with large volumes of booze being produced in the area, and shipped via boat on the Bay to Lake Ontario finally arriving in New York State where it was distributed.

Rumors and more at the time indicated the Deering was a victim of piracy, possibly connected with the illegal rum-running trade during Prohibition, and possibly involving another ship,, which disappeared at roughly the same time.

The New York plant was soon shut down due to Prohibition, yet during this time Cuba became a hotspot for US tourists.

Facundito Bacardí was known to have invited US-Americans ( still subject to Prohibition ) to " Come to Cuba and bathe in Bacardi rum.

The quality of liquor available during Prohibition was much worse than previously.

On January 16, 1919, the Eighteenth Amendment was ratified, ushering in Prohibition in the United States, which lasted from 1920 to 1933.

Detroit was ( and still is ) the largest city bordering Canada, where alcohol remained legal during Prohibition.

Detroit became the center of a new industry known as rum-running, which was the illegal smuggling or transporting of alcoholic beverages or any other illegal drinks during Prohibition.

When Prohibition was repealed in 1933 by the Twenty-first Amendment, the rum-running industry ended.

He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era.

When Prohibition was repealed in Ontario in 1926, just 15 breweries remained and only Labatt retained its original management.

The Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals was especially prominent within the building .< ref >” The United Methodist Building.

In New Zealand, prohibition was a moralistic reform movement begun in the mid-1880s by the Protestant evangelical and Nonconformist churches and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and after 1890 by the Prohibition League.

Prohibition was a major reform movement from the 1840s into the 1920s, and was sponsored by evangelical Protestant churches, especially the Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, Disciples and Congregationalists.

The Women's Christian Temperance Union, founded in 1874, and the Prohibition Party were major players until the early 20th century, when the movement was taken over by the Anti-Saloon League.

Legal and illegal home brewing was popular during Prohibition.

The Repeal of Prohibition in the United States was accomplished with the passage of the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution on December 5, 1933.

The organized Prohibition movement was dead nationwide, but survived for a while in a few southern and border states.