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A Red Brick ‘Spite Wall’ was Built Along Morgan State’s Campus in 1942, This Week it Came Down

by Morgan State U
April 13, 2023

Morgan State University students heading to history and political science classes Tuesday morning passed a bulldozer toppling a brick wall behind Jenkins Hall and its classrooms. The wall, built in 1942 by one of the city’s largest real-estate brokers to separate the school’s Black students from nearby white neighborhoods, was knocked down by the afternoon.

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