Series I (Boxes 1-11) consists of memoranda, reports, directives, policy statements regarding the policies, mission, and strategy of the Community Action Program (CAP) of the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), 1964-68. Of particular note are a series of significant memoranda regarding the CAP mission, previously assembled in ring binder notebooks, and a compilation of summary reports on the work of CAP in nine cities. Also included is a copy of the annual report of the Planning Development Program and Planning Systems Branch Activities Report with appendixes, FY 1968.

Series II (Box 11-17) consists chiefly of unpublished manuscripts, reports, and bibliographies collected on a variety of issues related to poverty and the CAP. Also includes some files of periodical articles, reprints, news clippings on related topics, and some reference material regarding the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 and subsequent proposed and passed amendments. Topics include Saul Alinsky, Appalachia, citizen Participation, community development, consumerism, neighborhood organization, minority education, cooperatives, poverty, housing, urban renewal, Lyndon B. Johnson, Los Angeles riots, migrant farm workers, police-community relations, aged, race relations, and rural communities. Other reference materials, including monographs and government documents, were transferred to Sangamon State Library's main holdings. A complete list of these materials is available upon request.

Series III (Boxes 18-19) contains publications from the years 1964 to 1972 showing the nature and scope of the "War on Poverty" waged by the Office of Economic Opportunity.

Series IV (Boxes 20-22) contains letters, memos, reports and clippings about the Springfield Urban League, 1973-1980.

Series V (Box 23) contains History Program records, 1971-1977, including announcements, memos, minutes, course proposals and program revision proposals.

Series VI (Boxes 24 and 25) contains records of special projects. Included are project proposals, planning papers, correspondence, memos, instructional materials and reports on projects funded by federal programs (under the Higher Education Act and the National Endowment for the Humanities) and by Sangamon State.

Series VII (Box 26) contains records of Sangamon State committees on which Breiseth served, 1972-1980. Committee records include minutes, notices, announcements, memos and correspondence of both ¬ad hoc¬ and standing committees on curricula, degree requirements, administrative policies and personnel. Most notable are the records of the Transition Committee and the Reorganization Committee, 1974-1975. Series VII also contains detailed records of the Sangamon State Faculty Union, in which Breiseth was active every year, 1972-1980.

Series VIII (Boxes 27-29) contains course materials, 1970-1984, including syllabi, textbook lists, teaching materials, class notes, bibliographies, correspondence with students and evaluations of students' work. Box 29 contains an advising file, with (sparse) information about individual students' enrollments, changes in enrollments, grade changes, etc., for 27 students. A few student papers are present.

Series IX (Boxes 30 and 31) contains a miscellany of correspondence, papers written by Sangamon State faculty, tutorial records, Humanities Faculty records, 3-year B. A. Program records, Sangamon County Historical Society correspondence, articles and speeches by Breiseth, and records of the proposed Consortium for Community Action.

Series VII (Box 26), VIII (Boxes 27-29) and Box 31 of Series IX contain information about students and faculty members and are RESTRICTED.