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The Biographical series (1900-2000, approximately 2.5 linear feet) contains awards, correspondence, news clippings, notes, slides, and video reels. The majority of this material provides information on Randall's life prior to the founding and subsequent rise in popularity of the Broadside Press, with some outlier material dated between the 1960s and 1980s. This series documents: incoming and outgoing letters sent between Randall and his friends and family members, including guardianship over his nephew Phillip; material regarding Randall's military career during World War II and his family's military careers starting from 1900; and correspondence and material related to Randall's overseas travels to the South Pacific in the 1940s, the Soviet Union (now Russia) in 1966, and Africa in the 1970s. Of note in this series is the award honoring Randall as the poet laureate of Detroit in 1981.

The Broadside Press series (1939-1999, approximately 4.5 linear feet) consists of correspondence, drafts, printed materials, audio cassettes, audio reels, and some film reel material. It is separated into three subseries: Correspondence, Drafts and Publications, and Ephemera.

This series encompasses the work that Randall and other influential individuals at the time did in regard to promoting and publishing black and African American authors starting in the 1960s. The Correspondence subseries (1960-1986) highlights Randall's interactions with several notable authors, such as Gwendolyn Brooks, Margaret Danner, Hoyt Fuller, as well as young black and African American poets seeking publication opportunities. Drafts and Publications (1965-1984) include rough drafts of works and printed material such as broadsides and books, but largely contain audiocassettes and audio reels of authors reading their works. The Ephemera subseries (1939-1999) provides examples of promotional leaflets and handouts, includes articles about Randall and the rise of the Broadside Press, and documents the change in ownership of the press in the late 1970s.