A segregation wall was taken down 80 years after its construction in Northeast Baltimore. Also referred to as a “spite wall,” it was built in the 1940s as an effort to keep Black students out of a predominantly white neighborhood.

At the time, residents came together to build the wall because of the growing number of Black students attending Morgan State University, an HBCU, according to NBC. It had remained a symbol of racial division and redlining policy in cities — efforts to maintain segregation.

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