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The Biographical series includes Mack's biography, images from Mack's time as a college student and as a basketball coach with the Castle Valley Job Corps in Price, UT; Mack's resumes, newspaper articles and press releases, and materials from a 1976 testimonial put on in Mack's honor by the members of the Region One Board. The latter also includes photographs and an audiocassette recording of the event. Of particular note is a digitized conglomeration of news clips and television interviews pertaining to Mack and his tenure with the Board.

The Biographical Information series features five sound recordings containing oral histories and interviews. Materials include a 4-part oral history series recorded in 2015 in which McCoy describes his background, education, inspirations and activism. The series also contains an interview conducted by The Michigan Daily student newspaper after the paper named McCoy a "Student of the Year" in 2015. The interview discusses McCoy's leadership and organizing work on the University of Michigan campus.

The Biographical Information series contains a short biography of Eugene Tann prepared by his children Dorothy Collens and Lewis Tann in 2018. The biography traces Eugene Tann's birth and early life in Czechoslovakia, his immigration to the United States, and his career in the manufacturing industry in Detroit. The statement also provides background information about Tann's parents and siblings and what happened to them during the World War II.

The Biographical/Personal files contain biographical information about Binkowski, including photographs and a photo CD, genealogical research, and correspondence with family, judges, and politicians. Digital content includes image files of a 2006 event and various historical and Polish American figures.

The Black Autonomy Network Community Organization records series (1 linear feet, 1 oversize box and 3.41 GB) contains materials related to the work of the organization and the controversial voter fraud charges against founder Reverend Edward Pinkney. The collection includes correspondence, news articles, court documents, protest fliers, religious writings, video recordings, and photos. The materials in the series are organized alphabetically.

The series Black student activism, 1969-2001 (5.5 linear feet) contains four alphabetically arranged subseries relating to the Black Action Movements (BAM) on the University of Michigan campus: BAM I, 1969-1987 (0.4 linear feet), BAM II, 1974-1975 (0.1 linear feet), BAM III, 1985-1995 (0.5 linear feet) and Conferences and Scholarship about BAM, 1970-2001 (0.1 linear feet). These records include correspondence, newspaper clippings, minutes and other records of the United Coalition Against Racism (UCAR), and they address both the movements themselves and reactions to them within the university community. There are also documents concerning incidents of racial harassment that had a part in inspiring the movements.

In 2014 the Bentley Historical Library digitized select archival records relating to BAM I, II and III housed in other University collections. Finding aid to Black Action Movement select documents, 1970-1987 digital collection is available online and contains links to the digitized files.

A fifth subseries, Other activism,1966-2000 (3.9 linear feet), includes newspaper clippings about the civil rights movement; and the anti-apartheid and divestment movements of the 1980s, as well as records of several activist organizations, particularly the Free South Africa Coordinating Committee (FSACC), and the Washtenaw County Coalition Against Apartheid (WCCAA). Some of these records pertain to activities on campus, but most are concerned with political and civil rights causes that are national or international in scope. The Washtenaw County Coalition Against Apartheid (WCCAA) records document that organization's efforts to encourage the University of Michigan and Ann Arbor banks to divest their holdings in South Africa.

More records relating to UCAR and the Baker -Mandela Center (BMC) are presented in the "Other activism" subseries, and pertain to activism and events at the University of Michigan during the 1980s and 1990s. Though UCAR and the BMC were separate entities, their records have been arranged together as a result of their frequent and close collaboration.