80 Years After Being Built to Divide Races, Wall Finally falls at Historically Black College

Morgan State University tore down a segregation wall surrounding its campus this week, dismantling a divider that stood for decades as a racist relic of the Jim Crow era.
The wall was built in the 1940s to separate the historically Black college from a White neighborhood after years of opposition to the university's move to its current location.
Despite the civil rights movement and progress toward racial equality, the wall remained standing until this week when the university demolished it as part of campus expansion.
Parts of the wall will be preserved as a historical marker reminding students of its place in the university's history of fighting systemic racism.
The demise of the wall symbolizes a step toward dismantling the legacy of segregation in Baltimore.