The collection primarily reflects the work of Robert and Berta Green Langston, and contains correspondence, newsclippings, newsletters, and promotional material for national speaking tours, as well as personal writings of the speakers. Most of the papers are written in English, but others are in German, French, Dutch, and an African language, possibly Xhosa.
The correspondence contains both general and specific files, and includes letters to and from Alexander's mother, as well as correspondence with various supporting groups and individuals, and with the United States Department of Justice. The collection is lacking in financial records, with the exception of a folder detailing the transfer of funds from the U.S. ADC to the prisoners' families in South Africa. Two sketchy financial statements are located with General Papers, in addition to news releases, papers, and reports of ADC. Copies of the Committee's official newsletter, “Notes from ADC,” date from 1965 to 1967.
Records of individual ADC chapters comprise a large segment of the collection, and date primarily from 1965 and 1966. In general, these papers pertain to the fund-raising tours. With this series are records of the Toronto chapter, and of European chapters, in particular those in Britain, Germany, and France. Other organizations, listed in the last series, include other U.S. and European groups involved in debating or combating apartheid and in opposing the South African government. Much of this material is in printed form.
