Meet Trevor Noah
Trevor Noah was born in this country.
South Africa
Apartheid was a system of racial segregation enforced by this country's government.
South Africa
In the U.S., racial segregation laws were known as ____
(What are Jim Crow laws?)
Trevor’s mother was a deeply religious woman and took him to church this many times each Sunday.
(What is three?)
The apartheid law that made Trevor’s existence illegal was called ____.
(What is the Immorality Act?)
The title Born a Crime refers to the fact that Trevor’s birth was illegal due to this law.
(What are apartheid-era laws against interracial relationships?)
Apartheid laws classified people into four racial categories: Black, White, Indian, and ____.
(What is Coloured?)
The U.S. Supreme Court case that legalized segregation in 1896.
(What is Plessy v. Ferguson?)
To keep Trevor safe from the police under apartheid, his mother sometimes pretended to be his ____.
(What is his nanny?)
Under apartheid, Black South Africans had to carry these documents at all times.
(What are passbooks or pass laws?)
Trevor Noah’s mother, Patricia Nombuyiselo Noah, is of this ethnic group.
(What is Xhosa?)
Under apartheid, Black South Africans were forced to live in these segregated areas.
(What are townships?)
A key similarity between apartheid and segregation in the U.S. was that both restricted Black people from ____.
(What are voting, education, jobs, and land ownership?)
Trevor struggled with his racial identity because he wasn’t fully accepted by these two groups.
(What are Black South Africans and White South Africans?)
: In the U.S. and South Africa, breaking racial laws often resulted in ____.
(What are arrest, fines, or violence?)
Trevor’s father was from this European country
(What is Switzerland?)
The South African government enforced apartheid from this year until this year.
What is 1948 to 1994?)
In both South Africa and the U.S., interracial marriage was illegal. In the U.S., it was finally legalized by this Supreme Court case in 1967.
(What is Loving v. Virginia?)
: In Chapter 1, Trevor describes his mother’s personality using this phrase: "She chose ____, and she chose it all the time."
(What is joy?)
In Born a Crime, Trevor’s mother defies apartheid by doing this in public with him.
(What is walking with him openly or holding his hand?)
Because of his mixed-race heritage, Trevor was classified under this racial category in South Africa.
(What is Coloured?)
This leader, imprisoned for 27 years, became South Africa’s first Black president after apartheid ended.
(Who is Nelson Mandela?)
The civil rights movement in the U.S. led to the passage of this landmark legislation in 1964.
(What is the Civil Rights Act?)
Trevor’s mother secretly placed him in a White school, showing her belief in ____.
(What is education as a path to opportunity?)
The end of apartheid was partly caused by this global action against South Africa.
(What are economic sanctions and international pressure?)