Welcome to the Freedom House Scholars Summer Enrichment 2024 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 @bostonurbanarchive. 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. One centers on the organization’s historic achievements in its first ten years of serving the community, from 1949 to 1959, and the other is on Project REACH, a youth development and scholarship program implemented by Freedom House in 1988. This website showcases these Zines (including as digital flipbooks) and the work of the scholars.