Correspondence, memoranda, printed matter, reports, speeches, writings, testimony, transcripts of interviews, and other material related primarily to civil rights legislation and efforts to defeat the nominations of Robert H. Bork and Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Subjects include the Civil Rights Acts of 1990 and 1991, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, interviews of Taylor conducted by Michael Pertschuk and Wendy Schaetzel (Lesko), affirmative action, civil rights, civil rights organizations, civil rights protections in education and employment, and school desegregation.