Parents outraged after ‘whites’ and ‘colored’ signs are posted above water fountains in Georgia elementary school

A Georgia elementary school is facing furious backlash from parents after their students were subjected to signs on campus reading “whites only” and “colored only.”

Students reported seeing the signs above water fountains and in the cafeteria at Honey Creek Elementary in Conyers, Georgia, southeast of Atlanta , according to local outlet WSB-TV .

School officials said a teacher put up the signs as part of a history lesson on Ruby Bridges, the first Black student to desegregate a U.S. school in 1960 at just six years old…

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