Muriel Sutherland Snowden (1916–1988) was the founder and co-director of Freedom House, a community improvement center in Roxbury, Massachusetts.[1][2]
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She was raised in Glen Ridge, New Jersey She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1938, and studied at the New York School of Social Work from 1943-1945.
She married Otto P. Snowden in 1944, and moved to Boston; they had a daughter Gail Snowden.
Freedom House was founded in 1949; they bought a building on Crawford Street, in 1952. In 1960, fire damaged the building; by 1961 the building was rebuilt.[3] She was executive director of the Cambridge Civic Unity Commission. She was a director of National Shawmut Bank of Boston.[4] She was a trustee of Babson College, and University of Massachusetts.
A school, near Copley Square, is named for her.[5] Her papers are held at Northeastern University.[6]