The Covenant

Have you ever felt the sting of being left out? Now imagine that feeling not just as a social snub but as a legal, everyday reality. It's the sense that your own community and country are actively working to deny you a place within them. This was a common practice in our nation's capital and in many other urban areas across the country, creating a system of race-based systemic denial that made exclusion a public and legally sanctioned injustice. The object we will discuss, a racial restrictive covenant, hits close to home. We also discuss why it is so important for museums to make themselves accessible to everyone. This episode delves into the story of The Covenant.