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Bordentown, NJ
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White, Wendel (architectual) Wendel White was born in Newark, NJ. He was awarded a BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in NY and an MFA in photography from the University of Texas at Austin. He is the recipient of the 2009 Fellowship from the NJ State council for the Arts, the 2003 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Photography and a 2005 Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts grant.The images in this series, "Schools for the Colored" were associated with the historic system of racially segregated schools which were established at the southern boundaries of the northern United States. This area, sometimes referred to as "Up-South", encompasses the northern "free" states that bordered the slave states. These "colored schools" were located within the landscape of southern New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. |
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3929 Birch Street
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