Hours during which documents may be retrieved are limited. Check the Society's website. The Archives Division of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin is open to the public.
Facilities are available for the duplication of unrestricted materials.
The Social Action Collections document major sociopolitical issues and movements in the United States. The Society's holdings are the largest such collection in the county. One of the major areas of emphasis is the civil rights movement. It houses the papers of organizations such as Congress of Racial Equality and Council of Federated Organizations and of such activists as Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Baker, and Amzie Moore as well as a collection of civil rights oral history interviews with many of the prominent leaders of the movement. The entire collection catalog is available online at the Society's website and is searchable via ArCat, the Archives Computer Catalog.