When Morgan State moved to its current location in 1917, White neighbors protested. In 1941, a wall went up, separating the school from the community.
For most of a century, a racist, eight-foot “spite wall” erected to divide a historically Black college from an adjoining White neighborhood stood in Baltimore — a reminder of a time when Jim Crow was embodied in brick and mortar.On Tuesday, the wall, which Morgan State University President David K. Wilson called “a loud symbol of hate in our community,” came down.
“It feels great to get rid of hatred,” he said in an interview. “To tear down that wall is the first step in removing a physical sign every single day of what our students and larger community had to go through — had to endure from an all-White neighborhood.” Founded in 1867, Morgan State moved to its current location in 1917. White neighbors were quick to protest, convening a mass meeting of 275 people to fight any “invasion” of the “pure white community by a negro institution, colony or settlement of any kind,” as the Baltimore Sun reported at the time. One resident said he “preferred to live near a community of ignorant and tractable negroes than one with ‘educated’ negroes,'” the paper said.
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