As a result of decades of city sponsored segregation, racial restrictive covenants, and redlining, York Road is a racial dividing line. When one travels further south on York Road, York Road becomes Greenmount. York Road divides and separates predominately Black east side, working class communities such as the Greater Govans from predominately white affluent west side communities such as Guilford and Homelands. There are two types of barriers separating African American communities from white communities in Northeast Baltimore. One set of barriers is physical. The other barrier is the continuing legacy of structural and systemic racism in Baltimore. The Guilford community in Baltimore epitomizes white privilege and the racial divide in Baltimore. Today, under the guise of promoting public safety, Guilford is perpetuating and maintaining the New Jim Crow, modern day segregation. There is a stone wall on York Road separating affluent Guilford from surrounding predominantly
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