In 1965, this was the Berkeley County headquarters of Summer Community Organization and Political Education, a voter registration project of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. SCOPE recruited volunteers from colleges around the U.S. to work with local African American activists in six southern states. Two concrete buildings here served as their Freedom House. Berkeley County SCOPE was established by Martha Prioleau Simmons, a local civil rights leader whose family owned the Freedom House property. The Pineville-based project included five white California college students and at least two dozen local Black adults and teenagers. Together, they registered approximately 600 new voters over three months and conducted demonstrations against segregation.