The Denver Post reports that students in football jerseys were shown wearing the hoods in the 1978, 1979 and 1980 yearbooks at Arapahoe High School in Littleton. Both the school district and the university denounced the images as wrong then and today.
The president of the NAACP’s State Conference for Colorado, Montana and Wyoming, Rosemary Lytle, says she was “pretty shocked” that that kind of racist symbolism appeared in a Colorado yearbook as recently as the late 1970s.
Arapahoe High students from the time say those responsible were known for being pranksters.