Lipani Gallery

Wendel White: Schools for the Colored

Wendel White: Schools for the Colored

Fordham University is pleased to present Wendel White’s Schools for the Colored, a series of black-and- white photographs depicting structures—extant, transformed, demolished, or replaced—that once housed segregated schools along the northern border of the Mason-Dixon Line. Segregated schools served as symbols of exclusion by the white community—but they also were places where black self-determination and agency were nurtured. Although desegregation…