This collection includes several large protest signs from the December 2014 demonstrations against MSU’s Fall commencement speaker, George F. Will, coverage of the controversy on the State News, as well as material from an alternative commencement ceremony, the Michigan State University "Surviving and Thriving Celebration."

The Michigan Grape Protest Banners collection contains two banners related to grape protests at Michigan universities. The organizations represented on these banners include LASO (Latin American Student Organization), Culturas de las Razas (CRU) - a pan-Latino student organization for college students, and MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán).

The Radicalism posters collection (approximately 1965-2019) consists of 289 posters relating to topics including Amnesty, Anti-Apartheid, Black Panthers, Campaign Politics, Communes, Communism, Health (AIDS and Safe Sex), Iraq, Labor, LGBT, Local Events and Organizations, Nuclear Arms, Protests, the Student Democratic Society (SDS), Vietnam, and Women’s events (including the White Ribbon Society).