A newspaper clipping from the 1940s that contained racist language referring to Black children was published in a California elementary school yearbook, sparking outrage in the school community.

Montclair Elementary School in Oakland, California, recently printed and distributed its yearbooks for the 2024-2025 school year.

One portion of the book contains local newspaper articles from years past that feature the school’s events. A report from Oct. 1940 was a feature about the school’s annual carnival that year and the activities that children could participate in.

Just a few paragraphs in, the article stated, “Boy and Girl Scouts will have charge of booths and many attractions such as n—r babies, darts, fish pond, airplane game, fortune telling.”

According to the Jim Crow Museum, a gam

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