How A Racist Wall Blocked Black Morgan State Students From A White Plaza. Now It’s Finally Torn Down

By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated April 12, 2023

Eighty years ago, a symbol of racial division was constructed during the 1930s in Northeast Baltimore, fittingly nicknamed the “spite wall,” to prevent students from the HBCU Morgan State University from crossing into the all-white Northwood Plaza shopping center.

Yesterday morning, it “came crumbling down.”

“The Morgan students that were fighting to be in the shopping center, they wouldn’t [have ever] imagined the

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