Materials in this collection include periodicals, pamphlets, organizational documents, ephemera, a CD, correspondence, newspaper clippings, posters, and an unpublished autobiographical manuscript from Celia Rosebury Lighthill. 

There is significant documentation of (and publications by) the W.E.B. Du Bois Club at UC Berkeley during the 1960s. There is also a sizable collection pertaining to leftist film and cinema. Additional material includes documents pertaining to Rosebury Lighthill’s life and personal community, as well as her own collection of a variety of periodicals and ephemera of varied political topics.