Interview Series
Book Preview
See preliminary drafts of the upcoming book commemorating the 75th anniversary of Freedom House. Read and listen to interviews with members of the Freedom House community across the years.
Gisel Ureña
Interactive Digital Timeline
Freedom House 1949 – Present
Freedom House was founded in 1949 as a center of civil rights and advocacy for Boston’s African American community. The initial goal of Freedom House was to support centralize community activism and services in the fight for neighborhood improvement, good schools, access to education, and harmony among racial, ethnic, and religious groups in Roxbury, a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Today Freedom House continues its mission to transform the economic and cultural fabric of high-needs communities through education and leadership development.
Freedom House Zines
Freedom House Scholars 2024 Summer Enrichment Archiving Project
In July and August 2024, eleven Freedom House scholars and junior coaches worked with the Reckonings Project during a six-week program, The Freedom House Summer Enrichment Program on Freedom’s House history and archiving. In the course of the program, the scholars explored the digital and physical archives of Freedom House at the Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections, the Hip Hop Archive at UMass Boston, and talked with Ebony Gill about her Instagram on Boston History. While learning about the rich history and legacy of Freedom House, the scholars identified physical materials, including photos, brochures, and fliers, for digitization. They then used these materials to create two physical zines with paper, scissors, and glue sticks.
