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Contains photocopies of newspaper clippings, newsletters, fliers, and programs relating to the cultural boycott of entertainers who performed in South Africa (1982-1984), racism in the United States including police abuse and abuses by the legal system in general (1983-1985), interest in southern black African countries, especially Namibia, Angola and Mozambique (1984-1985), the divestment campaign to get New York State pension funds out of companies doing business in apartheid South Africa (1984-1985), and the anti-apartheid campaign waged against South Africa (1983-1985). This series is very similar to the Coalition Activities series. Although there is no exact duplication of materials, the two series cover the same types of issues. Arranged chronologically.

The News Clippings and Press Releases series is arranged chronologically.

This series contains biographical materials such as a birth certificate and award as well as clippings about Joachim Maass and his published works.

This series, composed almost entirely of Josephine Sano's correspondence, includes communications from Sano offering support and enlisting the support of several organizations. Correspondence in this series also illustrates differing points of view on particular issues between Sano and the state AFL-CIO. Much of the correspondence is between Sano and the New York state AFL-CIO.

This series consists of records created by the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Studies. The bulk of the materials in this series were created between 1988 and 1995, when the position of Dean was held by Sung Bok Kim (except for an interim period in 1991 and 1992 when the position was held by Ernest Scatton). Also included are a few materials created during the tenures of Sung Bok Kim's predecessor, Harry Hamilton, and successor, John Pipkin.

This series consists of multiple manuscript drafts, notes, and galleys for Kennedy's third novel Billy Phelan's Greatest Game, published in 1978. The story introduces the Phelan family that figures prominently in five additional Kennedy books. Set in Albany during the Depression, Billy Phelan is a small-time gambler and bookie who becomes involved in the kidnapping of a local political boss' son. More than half of the folders in the series contain Federal Bureau of Investigation records of the actual John J. O'Connell, Jr. kidnapping and subsequent extortion case in 1933. The O'Connell family was heavily involved in Democratic Party politics in Albany. Kennedy also corresponded with the Federal Bureau of Investigation about the O'Connell kidnapping and received additional case records after the publication of Billy Phelan's Greatest Game.

This series includes a box of pins and buttons related to political campaigns (including ones for Democratic U.S. Presidential candidates), union programs, protests, and marches. Most of the buttons are undated, although some are stamped with the date of the election or related special event. There is a 1993 The Catholic Worker about the death of Cezar Chavez, Guatemalan refugee crisis and GATT. There also is a collection of contracts and workers' agreements, historically significant publications from national AFL-CIO meetings, and U.S. Senate Reports related to organized labor. Two NACLA's Latin America and Empire Report about President Richard Nixon are included here.