Arranged chronologically but preceded by Mason's graphical map of NYU student organizations (1963-1978), and a general history of the 1960s and 1970s at NYU co-authored by Mason. Series I includes various membership cards, buttons, and ephemera.

Series II contains records regarding the creation of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) at NYU, materials on the SDS's Radical Education Project at NYU, records from both the student and administration's viewpoints regarding the SDS-led demonstration against Ambassador Chi and James Reston's pro-Vietnam War presentations, and materials on what Mason termed "SDS successor" organizations.

Series III contains various student publications from the Washington Square campus during 1968-1975, some records from the New Student Union of 1965 and, in general, a group of records from the Weinstein Residence Hall, Washington Square Campus-All Square Congress, Faculty of Arts and Sciences-Graduate Students Organization, and the NYU Student President's Conference.

Series IV deals with the New University Conference (NUC), an Ann Arbor-based and socialist-influenced organization which was led primarily by faculty. Students active in the Anti-War Movement also played a significant role in the organization. NUC-NYU's activities fully reflected the national organization's concerns with providing leftist education alternatives for undergraduate and graduate students. Some of the NUC-NYU projects documented in this series are: the publication of NYU Inc., a financial and social analysis of NYU's Trustees Council, endowment investments, Law School, and financial ties to war contractors and the South African government; the early research for and support of the "University Without Walls" program at Washington Square, and involvement in the creation of the Metropolitan Studies Program; and finally, the Ivan Bennett Affair, to name only a few of the more prominent examples of NUC's activities.

This series includes materials from the Library and Cafeteria Workers strike committees, records from the faculty-student strike coordinating committee for the academic side of the university, the participating departments, the coordinating committees of the buildings which students seized and occupied, and finally, a collection of student analyses of the strike which were written for Professor Fleming's class in the Politics Department. For an analysis of these events which is based primarily upon the records of the Cafeteria and Library workers' union local, and upon oral histories, see Peter Miller's video "Violets on the Picket Line." The video, as well as a research paper, are available for use at the Public History Program office in the NYU Department of History, 19 University Place, Fifth floor. Both the video and the paper are scheduled for accession by the University Archives.

This series contains three different classes of records which have been arranged chronologically by class: 1) those reports and press releases which indicated NYU's efforts to deal with specific problems in its student body that had been created by demographics, politics, economic circumstances, etc. (folder 49); 2) materials which presented NYU's long-range plans to the wider university community and the general public, and those internal reports and bulletins that fulfill the same purpose on a day to day level (folders 50-51); and finally, 3) a surveillance film from Campus Security which depicted a student-faculty demonstration in 1968, whose focus was the appearance of and pro-war speeches on campus by Ambassador Chi and James Reston (folder 52).

Arranged chronologically by organization. These student groups arose out of the opposition to the Vietnam War, and included within their membership both students and non-university members.

This series contains one Anti War Conference Poster dated 1971. Other posters (dated 1962-1978) in this collection have been separated to the University Archives' Poster Collection.