may 1, 1950 - Immorality Act

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The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act was supplemented by the Immorality Act of 1950, which banned all extra-marital sexual relations between Whites and non-Whites.

Under existing segregation-era laws, any extra-marital sexual relationships between Whites and Blacks were illegal, but this was now extended to cover sexual relations between Whites and other racial groups as well.

Rather tellingly, the law failed to cover sexual relations between people of different non-White races.

Clearly, the government only concerned itself with the purity of the White race.