…saddled with two mortgages, found it difficult to manage the upkeep on their properties. To overcome these forces and revitalize the community’s physical and social structure, Freedom House became a…

Project Details The 2,441 photographs, negatives, and slides comprising this collection are part of the records of Freedom House. These images document one of three important themes: 1. early activities…

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About Freedom House Freedom House was founded in 1949 by African American social workers Muriel S. and Otto P. Snowden to centralize community activism in the fight for neighborhood improvement,…

…come from the Freedom House Records, available at the Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections. Credit and Copyright Citing this project The Freedom House: A Legacy Preserved. Online exhibit. Northeastern…

About Freedom House Project Details Publish In 2007, the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners awarded Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections Department $20,336 for a project to digitize and…

…attended New York School of Social Work, studying community organizing and race relations until her marriage to Otto Snowden in 1945. She was the executive director of the Cambridge Civic…

…A week later, Paul Parks of NAACP organized a meeting at Freedom House to air grievances to Louise Day Hicks, the new chair of the Boston School Committee. Hicks controlled…

…over the escalating number of bars in the neighborhood, Freedom House led the community in an effort to reduce the number of new and renewed application for liquor licenses. Residents…

Freedom House Fire Tragedy struck Freedom House on the night of January 31, 1960, when a fire destroyed the main building. The goal to get Freedom House back in operation…