Newberry Library President and Librarian Daniel Greene writes: “At the Newberry, we believe deeply that historical context should inform how we respond to contemporary crises. This includes examining the library’s own history and investigating institutional complicity in structural racism. Confronting this painful history, we hope, will help us build a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive Newberry. With this aspiration in mind, this blog post looks at the Newberry’s signing of restrictive covenants for properties it owned during the 1930s and 1940s.”