Former Santa Clara County Students Awarded Over $1 Million in Blackface Lawsuit

At trial it was discovered that they were wearing green acne face masks. The uproar arose in 2020 amid racial tensions after the death of George Floyd.

Saint Francis High School in Mountain View, Calif., in November 2022. Google Maps / Screenshot via California Insider

Two students at a Northern California private high school who were expelled for alleged “blackface” photos will now receive more than $500,000 each after a recent jury verdict.

The students were expelled in June 2020 from Saint Francis High School in Mountain View, in Santa Clara County, for photos school officials believed at the time were showing them in “blackface.”