Correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, interviews, photographs and posters relating to the following organisations: Black Sash, Detainees' Parents Support Committee, End Conscription Campaign, Institute for a Democratic Alternative in South Africa, Jews for Social Justice, Johannesburg Democratic Action Committee, Mass Democratic Movement, National Education Union of South Africa, National Education Crisis Committee, NUSAS and the United Democratic Front.

Subjects are Namibia, education, trade unions, women, detentions, protest theatre and the Black liberation struggle. Includes interviews with H. Barsel, I Heymann, A Sisulu, S. Kentridge, H. Joseph and D. Alexander.