Comments on growing up in Tuskegee, Alabama, with her grandmother, a former slave; education at Tuskegee Institute and Howard University; move to Berkeley, Calif. in 1920; the local black community and patterns of discrimination; labor organizing activities and political action on behalf of employment opportunities for blacks; participation in civil rights programs; election to Alameda County Democratic Central Committee, 1938; black leaders; Berkeley schools and politics; women's clubs and other civic organizations; community projects in Berkeley; etc.

With this: scrapbook, with mounted clippings, letters, photographs, awards, etc., and as v. 3, a box, with letters, clippings and miscellaneous papers providing additional documentation on Mrs. Albrier's career.