This collection contains correspondence, memos, documents, and reports from the Affirmative Action Office under the leadership of Edyth Cole, and Jack C. Coleman, correspondence with Louis Allen, James Drake, Chick Francis, John Keiser, Larry Shiner, Robert Spencer, and Dottie Troop. It also contains memos from the Coleman Chronological files, 1976-78, agenda, minutes, and memos from the Division heads Meetings, 1967-77, as well as memos and correspondence from Good Faith Searches/ Affirmative Action recruitment, 1972-76; and information on Nepotism, Newhouse Report, League of Women Voters, "Rights of the Handicapped", Springfield Human Relations Committee, and the Urban League. The information was collected by Edyth Cole, Affirmative Action Officer from 1972-76 and C. Jack Coleman, Affirmative Action Officer from 1976-78.

The collection is mostly alphabetical order. There are two series, those folders that were labeled Affirmative Action, and the Colemand Chronological file, which holds the papers, mostly correspondence, of one of the Jack Coleman.