Photos: Desolate Morris Brown campus

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Photos: Desolate Morris Brown campus

Morris Brown College is in bankruptcy.

A man walks past a rusting and overgrown Morris Brown College sign on Thursday afternoon, June 12, 2014. BEN GRAY / BGRAY@AJC.COM

A Morris Brown College bus sits in the middle of an overgrown parking lot on the college's campus Thursday, afternoon June 12, 2014. BEN GRAY / BGRAY@AJC.COM

The clock tower on Morris Brown College's Fountain Hall is stopped and the clock tower is falling apart Thursday afternoon, June 12, 2014. The college, in Southwest Atlanta, is currently in bankruptcy. BEN GRAY / BGRAY@AJC.COM

A sapling takes root in an upper window sill of the abandoned Grimes Hall on Morris Brown College's campus. BEN GRAY / BGRAY@AJC.COM

Morris Brown College's president's house sits overgrown and boarded up. BEN GRAY / BGRAY@AJC.COM

Gaines Hall on Morris Brown College's campus sits abandon and boarded up on June 12, 2014. BEN GRAY / BGRAY@AJC.COM

A building sign on Morris Brown College's campus is barely visible Thursday afternoon June 12, 2014. The college, in Southwest Atlanta, is currently in bankruptcy. BEN GRAY / BGRAY@AJC.COM

The front door of Morris Brown College's Fountain Hall is locked and boarded up. The college, in Southwest Atlanta, is currently in bankruptcy. BEN GRAY / BGRAY@AJC.COM

The front door of Morris Brown College's Fountain Hall is locked and boarded up. The college, in Southwest Atlanta, is currently in bankruptcy. BEN GRAY / BGRAY@AJC.COM

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A man walks past a rusting and overgrown Morris Brown College sign on Thursday afternoon, June 12, 2014. BEN GRAY / BGRAY@AJC.COM

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