The Women's organizations include the Nassau County Women's Liberation Center, Redstockings, Chicago Women's Liberation Union, Nassau County Coalition for Abused Women, in Nassau, New York and the Focus Women's Resource Center in Charlottesville, Virginia. Topics include consciousness raising, radical feminism, and respect for diversity in women. Of interest is a brief mention of a libel suit involving Gloria Steinem, censorship regarding any possible work that she did for the Central Intelligence Agency.

Nassau County Women's Liberation Center (1972-1989) files containing literature, by-laws, correspondence, and notes about events relating to consciousness raising, and radical feminism. Other topics include rape, abuse, and abortion.

There are also files from the Focus Women's Resource Center (1990-2012) including procedures, a peer counseling manual, monthly reports, and information about programs such as the Day of Dialogue Black Women/White Women, a Young Women's Summer Project, and coordination with the Community for Non-Violence Education Council to teach students character and citizenship.

Folder one contains information about a lawsuit involving the Redstockings and Random House, regarding a chapter in a book about Gloria Steinem and the Central Intelligence Agency.

Also included is a personal resume and greeting cards of Susan Oberman.

This series contains the papers from the Charlottesville Peace curriculum and the Charlottesville Non-Violence Education Council to teach students life skills, character, and citizenship. (2000-2011) Also included are correspondence and newspaper clippings about a local teen suicide and psychological support for students at the school.

There are also files of the Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice from 1989 to 2011 containing advertisements, notes, articles, and ideas for discussion on many social, political, and economic issues on a national and local level, including the Patriot Act, the Homeland Security Act, Kosovo, gun reduction, marriage laws, crime, selective service, protests on the war against Iraq, war profiteers, oil, impeachment of presidents, prayer, the Middle East, National media and elections, terrorism, immigration and the Fourteenth Amendment, taxes, Wall Street, nuclear energy, climate change, local economic development issues, and the University of Virginia living wage campaign.

This series is comprised of correspondence, meeting minutes, planning notes, and newspaper clippings related to the organization, "Citizens for a United Community" (2002-2004) which is created following an act of racial violence in Charlottesville, Virginia in which ten Charlottesville High School students attack a group of students at the University of Virginia. The organization hosts a successful community event, "Many Races-One Community" on April 12, 2003 and then disbands.

There are also minutes, programs, and correspondence from the Violence Reduction Action group (2003-2004), another diversity organization established to promote diversity and continue the efforts of the CUC. Included is e-mail correspondence about President John Casteen's appointment of a Diversity Commission at the University of Virginia and comments that the City of Charlottesville feels alienated by the commission.

"Achievement Gap Forum" papers from 2004 to 2006, contain a report on how schools can close the achievement gap among students of different races and improve all student performance. Included are articles and case studies on poverty and race. The forum is sponsored by the Martin Luther King Celebration Committee. There is information regarding the Martin Luther King Celebration Committee (2004-2005) which is set up to honor Dr. King and support civil rights. Included is a mission statement, articles, event programs, meeting notes, and articles and quotes by Dr. King.

There is also correspondence and meeting notes for Charlottesville's Dialogue on Race (2010-2013), an organization with goals of teaching Charlottesville's racial history, creation of a public memorial of Vinegar Hill, closure of the achievement gap in schools, and support for the Living Wage Campaign at the University of Virginia.

Of interest is information on the history of African American life in Charlottesville, the racial background of Queen Charlotte, biographies of important educational and civil rights leaders in Charlottesville from the 18th century to the present, a timeline of Charlottesville's race relations (1700-2003), and a list of African-American businesses located on Main Street and Preston Avenue (before the razing of Vinegar Hill) an on the grounds of the University of Virginia.

There are also planning notes about upcoming panels, speeches, and articles about race and social justice presented by family members, scholars and activists including Dr. Ervin Jordan, Bob Vernon, Gayle Schulman, Shirley Parrish, Scott French, David Swanson and many others. Topics mentioned are the Civil War, segregation, Jim Crow laws, and school desegregation.

This series is composed of many publications including five by Susan Oberman (Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal, and the Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution). Most of the publications address women's issues including marriage, daycare, divorce, sexual relations, abuse, Title IX, birth control, housework, family, salary, lesbianism, strikes, and leadership. Titles include "The Liberated Grapevine of the Women's Liberation Center of Nassau County", "Myth of Women's Inferiority", "Notes New York Radical Women", "Sharing", "Women, A Journal of Liberation", "Women Workers", "The Women of the Telephone Company", "Iris, A Journal about Women", "Lillith, The Jewish Women's Magazine", "The Woman's Place is at the Typewriter", "Counter planning from the Kitchen", "Marxist Approach Problems of Women's Liberation", "Sex Roles and Female Oppression", and "A Women's Touch."

Authors include Dana Densmore, Evelyn Reed, Roxanne Dunbar, Margery Davis, Alice de Rivera, Ilene Winkler, Voltairine de Cleyre, Sylvia Federici, and many others.