immorality
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This debut novel follows a mixed-race South African family in the 1920s blown apart by the Immorality Act, which essentially criminalized interracial relationships.
From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2022
In 1988, I produced “Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act,” which is about a white librarian and a Black schoolteacher falling in love.
From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2021
Her 1963 work, “Occasion for Loving,” is about a white woman who has a relationship with a black man, something that was illegal at the time, banned by the Immorality Act.
From Salon • Jul. 17, 2014
Australia, the Christadelphian Church ran an ad in the Courier Mail: "A vital address on the possibility of obtaining Immorality will be given by Mr. A. C. Mogg."
From Time Magazine Archive
Immorality she understood, and could excuse; for immorality there was always some provocation; what she couldn't stand was the unfairness of Philippa's proceeding, the inequality in the game.
From The Return of the Prodigal by Sinclair, May
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