Freedom House records, 1941-1996, 1949-1990.

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Freedom House records, 1941-1996, 1949-1990.

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Freedom House materials document the administration and programs of a grassroots organization, and the concerns and issues that face a racially mixed neighborhood during a fifty-year period. It also documents the social activism of its founders and the networks they developed with other organizations, politicians, and community leaders. Reference files included in the collection provide a broader picture of the political issues facing African Americans nationally and locally for the decades of the 1940's-1970's and of community activism in Roxbury and Boston during those years.

83 boxes (62 cubic ft.)

Northeastern University, Snell Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7400254

Northeastern University, Snell Library

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Snowden, Muriel S. 1916-1988.

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Council on Community Affairs (Boston, Mass.)

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Freedom House Coalition.

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Freedom House, originally the Council on Community Affairs of Upper Roxbury (1947-1949), was founded by Otto P. and Muriel S. Snowden to centralize community activism in the fight for neighborhood improvement, good schools, and harmony among racial, ethnic, and religious groups in Upper Roxbury, Massachusetts. Freedom House was incorporated in 1949. Early programs focused primarily on providing activities for children, youth and adults, that would strengthen relations be...

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Boston Redevelopment Authority

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Snowden, Otto Phillip, 1914-1995

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