On occasion they provide the basis for insight into the strategies of the participants in social protest movements over the past several decades. For several Years a Social Protest Serials component was maintained as part of the Collection. When the Collection was reorganized in 1986, the samples and the large accumulation of unprocessed serials were separated to be evaluated and selectively processed by the Bancroft or General Library. The researcher will find an occasional serial or short serial run retained in the Collection if it provides a substantial chronology on an important issue or incident in the Berkeley or Bay area protest movement. In the container list which begins on page 17, approximate dates are listed for each folder.
Material is, for the most part , arranged chronologically within folders.
The Collection is organized into nineteen subject series reflecting the major movements of the 1960's and 1970's. Within each, the vast majority of folder titles are the names of organizations whose leaflets and literature have been preserved. There are, however, in most series, occasional folders titled by the name of an individual, an incident, or a demonstration. In addition, at the end of most series, the user will find one or more folders of miscellaneous flyers not identified with one organization but generally pertaining to the subject of the series. The dissolution of the Collection's single alphabetical file and its reorganization into subject series was undertaken primarily to augment its value to researchers.