'White Only' signs for sale at antiques store spark confrontation
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
January 22, 2020 From CNN
Nicola Shanks was browsing the aisles of an antique store in Cortez, Colorado, last week when she noticed several signs that took her aback.
"Public Swimming Pool -- White Only," one read.
"Colored Seated In Rear," another read.
"We Serve Colored Carry Out Only," read a third.
Shanks, a stay-at-home mom with an African-American daughter, was angered by the Jim Crow-era racist signs, she told CNN.
"I think it was disbelief at first, that I was actually seeing these signs in a store. It's something I would expect to see at the Jim Crow museum, not in a local antique store," she said.
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