{"value"=>"<p>Consists mainly of business correspondence and financial documents. The series is further divided into five sub-series. The first three folders of correspondence in the Ghana Insurance & Ghana General Insurance sub-series trace the establishment of the Ghana Insurance Company and the challenges encountered in the process, namely red tape, settling in Ghana, and overcoming the populace's suspicions about the workings of insurance; Nkrumah, for example, was alleged to have thought insurance \"a racket\" (Letters from David Jones, page 7).</p> <p>The remainder of the series generally documents Freeman and Tandy's other business investments and their involvement in the formation of other national insurance companies on the African continent. The Consumer United Insurance Corporation folder contains reports from the NAACP Task Force on Africa mission to Senegal, Liberia, Cote D'Ivoire, and Nigeria as well as recommendations made by Freeman and his team based on their meetings with leaders such as Senegal's Leopold Sédar Senghor and William Tolbert of Liberia. The General Correspondence sub-series cover correspondence in the period after Freeman's departure from Ghana. Included here are requests for, or acknowledgements of, Freeman's consultation on insurance projects in Africa as well as correspondence from Freeman's tenure in the Peace Corps (1965-1966) and USAID's Africa Bureau (1968-1971) including a letter from Senator Edward W. Brooke to President Nixon regarding \"the serious dearth of black Americans in policy-making positions in our government\".</p>"}