The collection contains correspondence, writings, seminar and class outlines, conference agenda, clippings, newsletters, and miscellaneous materials relating to women's liberation, including two tapes from the Chico State teach-in during the fall of 1971. Papers are divided into three general categories: Correspondence, Writings, and Activities, followed by Tape Recordings and Photographs.

Pamela Allen's CORRESPONDENCE, 1967-1971, includes discussion of activities such as the Jeannette Rankin Brigade and the Miss America Pageant demonstration, as well as general organizational concerns, the development of the small group, and objectives for radical women's liberation. Later correspondence concerns Allen's teaching and writings, International Women's Day, coordination of a national radical women's conference, and San Francisco women's issues. Correspondence relating to the Sudsofloppen group is also found in this series.

Notable among the WRITINGS of Pamela Allen is the pamphlet Free Space. Rough drafts and a copy of the first edition are included, as well as a rough draft of The Reluctant Reformers, by Robert L. Allen. Ms. Allen served as research assistant and collaborator for the work and wrote the book's fifth chapter, “Women Suffrage: Women's Rights and White Supremacy.” Miscellaneous writings of Pamela Allen from 1967-1971 cover the small group, the direction of women's liberation, day care, the YWCA, and drafts of two plays, The Uprising of the 20,000 and Could We Be Heard. This series also contains collected newsletters; a manuscript of the first English translation of Cuban Women Now, given to Ms. Allen by the author, Margaret Randall; an interview with Simone de Beauvoir, French philosopher and feminist and author of The Second Sex; and miscellaneous women's liberation poetry, songs, and bibliographies.

The ACTIVITIES of Ms. Allen are documented in a series of activity files arranged in rough chronological order. Notable in this group are materials relating to the Breakaway conferences of 1970 and 1971 and the various seminars on women and racism conducted for the San Francisco area YWCAs.