Included are a voluminous amount of correspondence as well as reports, minutes, literature requests, membership lists, registration forms, pamphlets, newsletters, clippings, and check stubs. These papers relate to SDS conventions and national councils, National Office staff and other intra-organizational matters, projects, chapters, and other organizations, 1962-1965. This subseries is arranged in seven sub-categories.

The convention and national council meeting papers, 1962-1965, contain correspondence, minutes, reports, position papers, and registration forms. These are concerned with various aspects of American radicalism: the student, civil rights, peace, and labor movements as well as intra-organizational concerns.

The correspondence refers to radical organizing, SDS matters, personal affairs, and the civil rights, labor, and anti-war movements.

The project files, 1963-1965, contain correspondence, leaflets, reports, literature requests, clippings, and newsletters. They refer to the SDS Bulletin, anti-South African Apartheid activities including SDS's Chase Manhattan sit-in, and anti-Vietnam war demonstrations.

There are correspondence, leaflets, newsletters, clippings, reports, and literature requests in the chapter files, that provide information on student activism throughout the U.S. and have in some cases an abundance of data on local issues.

Material pertaining to related groups includes correspondence, newsletters, clippings, leaflets, and reports. They detail SDS's interrelationships with other student and leftist groups.

The National Office's office records include a checking account, cash receipts journal, check stubs, literature requests, leaflets, membership lists, and miscellaneous writings, speeches, and reports.