Letters, petitions, flyers, brochures, collected newspaper and magazine articles, meeting minutes, attendance sheets, and memoranda generated by the Springfield affiliate of Amnesty International. Includes letters (some in French) written by Richard Kaige and other members of Adoption Group #218 on behalf of prisoners of conscience to foreign dignitaries and heads of state. The subjects of these letters include the treatment of political prisoners in Zaire, human rights abuses in El Salvador, South Korea and Sri Lanka, torture and "disappearing" of dissidents in Chile, and the death penalty in Illinois. Includes correspondence with Illinois Congressman Dick Durbin, Illinois Senators Adlai Stevenson III and Paul Simon, the President and other government officials in Zaire, USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev, and others.

Also includes issues of Amnesty International publications, Midwest/Beacon, Matchbox, and Amnesty Action.