What were the major differences between South African apartheid and American segregation?

Question

Moreover, why wasn’t the United States blackballed on a global scale for segregation the way South Africa was for apartheid?

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Answer 1

So I haven’t seen anyone point this out, but much of late American segregation was not explicitly written into law. Practices of Red Lining and Block Busting were done by the real estate industry and white home-owners, and were both practices of ensuring that black people could not rent or purchase property in white neighbourhoods, hence the establishment of racially homogenous areas still seen today, compared to South Africa at the time which had it written in law what areas indigenous South Africans were allowed to live in.