When Chicago's Newberry Library opened a 2016 exhibition entitled "Civil War to Civil Rights: African American Chicago in the Newberry Collection," the artifacts on display included a sample of a racially restrictive covenant. What the Newberry Library did not emphasize, though, was that it had been a party to some of those racially restrictive covenants itself.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune at 07:49AM on November 19, 2020