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This collection documents the work of AIUSA human rights activist Virginia Mattern, especially related issues in the Caribbean and Southeast Asia.

This collection documents the efforts of the Committee of Concerned Scientists in promoting academic and personal freedom for scientists, scholars, engineers, and students.

The Gay J. McDougall Papers document the South African anti-apartheid movement in the 1960s through the 1990s. The records primarily include correspondence, writings and speeches, administrative records, court documents and case files, and newspaper clippings related to human rights, anti-apartheid activism, political prisoners, the 1989 Namibian election and the 1994 South African election. The collection documents the work of McDougall; the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Southern Africa Project, a non-governmental organization (NGO); and the Commission for Independence in Namibia.

Akemi Kochiyama-Sardinha, the granddaughter of Yuri and Bill Kochiyama, described her mother's archive as "made up of her documentation of all the people and movements she engaged with every day of her life. In collecting it, she captured the history of many of the overlapping and aligned movements for liberation that took place over the last half of the twentieth century. It includes personal correspondence, documentation of her work with Malcolm X and the OAAU, and countless other activists, movements, and organizations. It provides, I think, an important window into the complex history, and power, and potential, for radical solidarities now." ["Revolutionary Friendship: Malcolm X and Yuri Kochiyama" (19 February 2025) [This event was co-created by The New York Public Library's Center for Educators and Schools, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and in collaboration with the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University and the Yuri Kochiyama Solidarity Project.]]