The records include minutes, correspondence, press releases, leaflets, and files concerning participation in various local and national demonstrations. The most complete documentation of the committee's activities may be found among the press releases and flyers, which form part of a publications file, and in a segregated group of form letters filed with the correspondence. Except for material dating from 1966 and 1967, the remainder of the collection provides only fragmentary coverage of committee activities.
The minutes, 1966-1971, also including calls and meeting agendas, pertain not only to meetings of the central administrative committee, but also to several important full committee meetings.
Chronologically-arranged correspondence, 1965-1971, is rather routine (the sole outside correspondent of note is Norman Thomas, March 22, 1966), although the outgoing mail is of somewhat higher quality than the incoming. Most of this mail was written by A. J. Muste or by staff members Fred Halstead or Linda Morse. Several letters from Ron Wolin concern the committee's constitutional right to distribute leaflets. Very little of the correspondence bears on the works of the two committee coordinators, Norma Becker and David Dellinger, or on the administrative committee. There are also few exchanges with the leaders of any of the national anti-war coalitions with which the Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee cooperated at various stages of its existence; exceptions to this are an important letter from Frank Emspak (May 15, 1966) of the National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam regarding that group's attitude toward the 1966 Hiroshima Day protest and a May 13, 1966, note from Kipp Dawson concerning the San Francisco Vietnam Day Committee's support of that same event.
Demonstration Files, 1965-1968, include material on parade logistics and marshalling, a few speeches (one by Norman Mailer is dated August 6, 1966), clippings, and advertisements. While there are only a few clippings relating to the demonstration for which the committee was formed in 1965, there are files of greater interest on the demonstrations of March 26 and August 6-9, 1966, and April 15, 1967.
The remainder of the collection consists of fragmentary financial records, staff files containing working notes and memoranda, a copy of a suit against the New York Port Authority in defense of the committee's right to leaflet there, and Miscellany. Of the staff files, those of Fred Halstead contain some correspondence relating to the committee's interest in organizing the anti-war sentiment among servicemen.
