Spotlight

Online Exhibit -- Freedom House Photographs: Roxbury Places, People, and Events, 1950-1975

Freedom House Play School, 1950s (M16, Box 70, Folder 2793)Freedom House was founded in 1949 by African American social workers Muriel S. and Otto P. Snowden to centralize community activism in Roxbury. This online collection contains 2,265 photographs, negatives, and slides from the Freedom House collection. To view the images, please visit http://www.lib.neu.edu/freedomhouse.

Documenting Boston's Diversity

Child marches in protest of the Boston School Committee, 1963. Original located in the James Fraser papers (M66, Box 1, Folder 1) In the fall of 1998, the Archives and Special Collections Department of the Northeastern University Libraries began a project funded in part by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to identify, locate, secure, and make accessible the most important and at-risk historical records of Boston's African American, Chinese, gay and lesbian, and Latino communities. More »