Racial segregation

====Belgian Congo====
{{Main|Belgian Congo#Social inequality and racial discrimination }}

From 1952, and even more so after the triumphant visit of [[Baudouin of Belgium|King Baudouin]] to the colony in 1955, Governor-General [[Léon Pétillon]] (1952–1958) worked to create a "Belgian-Congolese community", in which Black and White people were to be treated as equals.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pétillon |first=L. A. M. |title=Témoignage et réflexions |publisher=Renaissance du Livre |year=1967 |location=Brussels}}</ref> Regardless, [[anti-miscegenation laws]] remained in place, and between 1959 and 1962 thousands of mixed-race Congolese children were forcibly deported from the Congo by the Belgian government and the [[Catholic Church]] and taken to Belgium.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Paravicini |first=Giulia |date=4 April 2019 |title=Belgium apologizes for colonial-era abduction of mixed-race children |work=[[Reuters]] |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-belgium-congo/belgium-apologizes-for-colonial-era-abduction-of-mixed-race-children-idUSKCN1RG2NF |access-date=10 July 2019}}</ref>