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This series contains records pertaining to various international, national, regional, state, and local activist organizations, non-profit groups, political parties, and religious organizations concerned with the death penalty and other activism related activities and events. The groups represented are primarily, but not exclusively, concerned with the abolition of the death penalty and prisoner rights. Included in this series are newsletters, correspondence, pamphlets, flyers, mass mailings, as well as a small amount of administrative material for organizations in which Bill Pelke himself was involved, such as the Indiana Coalition Against the Death Penalty (ICADP), the Northwest Indiana Coalition to the Abolish Control Unit Prisons, and the Northern Indiana Coalition Against the Death Penalty. Researchers should be aware that the bulk of this material consists of public outreach materials collected by Bill Pelke.

Spanning several decades, this series features William Kennedy's essays and a news articles written for such varied outlets as newspapers, magazines, a city guide, a writers' cook book, a National Endowment for the Humanities Project, and a museum. In many instances, the files also include supplemental materials such as research, notes, and correspondence. Please note this series does not contain Kennedy's feature articles for the Albany Times-Union in the mid-1960s on slums, housing integration or poverty. These may be found in Series 17: Investigative Journalism.

This series includes League publications from the local, state, and national organizations. There is also material produced by other organizations that was collected by the LWVAC. There is a relatively comprehensive collection of the LWVAC newsletter The Active Voter, now known as Educate, Participate, Advocate, as well as newsletters from the state and national Leagues. Other publications by the LWVAC such as Voter's Guides, Household Hazards: A Guide to Detoxifying Your Home, and This is Albany County are included in Series 2, Series 3, and Series 4, respectively. Publications and other material by the state and national LWV include such items as brochures and pamphlets discussing public policy issues and citizen participation and board reports sent to the local Leagues. The series includes material produced by other organizations and is arranged alphabetically by subject. For example, there are a number of items relating to the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1967 and financing education. Materials in this part of the series, while not part of a particular study, may have been used as background material for some League studies found within the other series of this collection.

This series contains both labor union and General Electric newspapers collected by Helen Quirini while employed at General Electric and during her retirement. The newspapers include publications of other local unions, regional groups and national organizations. Newspaper clippings about or mentioning Quirini as well as articles discussing key topics like the IUE/UE split, strikes and McCarthyism may be found in Series 2. Clippings about pension rights and retiree demonstrations may be found in Series 5.

Leonard Kastle's card catalog of music.

This series includes posters used at rallies by members of SASU. Topics covered include presidential and gubernatorial candidates, opposition to the Vietnam War, support for the environment, anti-Apartheid sentiment, as well as other issues.

Contains recorded broadcasts of The Media Project, a WAMC-produced weekly radio show that provides an inside look at media coverage of current events. Panelists include Times Union Editor Rex Smith, WAMC CEO and UAlban Alan S. Chartock, and Daily Freeman Publisher Ira Fusfeld.

Material in series that required oversize storage containers:

This series is divided into three sub-series. The first two sub-series (1) Essayistic, prose, poetry (133 file folders) and (2) Letters to the Editor (83 file folders) are arranged chronologically, while the third sub-series (3) Herz's reviews of works by others (89 file folders) is arranged alphabetically by the author of the work reviewed. This series contains a nearly complete set of Herz's published essayistic writings, as well as a small number of unpublished essays, poems and stories.