This series contains records of the Black Student Alliance as well as records of the Black History Month Planning Committee, a group that formed every year to assist with programming events for Black History Month celebrations at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Most materials in this series date from 1970 to the early 1990s.

This collection contains photographs taken by Delmont Wilson and James Mooney for the Chattanooga News-Free Press regarding the Civil Rights sit-in demonstrations organized by Black students from Howard High School in Chattanooga, Tennessee in February 1960.

This collection contains interviews with student organizers and survivors of gun violence regarding the March For Our Lives movement in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 2018.

This collection contains interviews regarding Latinx experiences in Chattanooga, Tennessee recorded in 2019.

This collection contains legal documents, briefs, court transcripts, correspondence, memoranda, reports, and plans created by the Board of Education in Chattanooga, Tennessee, as well as the 25-year public school desegregation court case Mapp v. Board of Education of Chattanooga. The contents of the collection range from 1953 to 1986.