Protest and Reform
Agriculture
- The Land Institute Non-profit research and educational organization devoted to the development of alternative forms of agriculture, established near Salina, Kansas in 1976
- Legislative Reference Files (Kansas State Board of Agriculture) circa 1992-1995 Includes information on protests of the use of Atrazine in agriculture
Antislavery
- John Brown read the famous abolitionist's letters on Kansas Memory
- George Washington Brown, 1820-1915 Lawrence, Kansas, newspaper editor
- New England Emigrant Aid Company, circa 1854-1868
Civil Rights
- Brown v. Topeka Board of Education Oral History Collection
- Brown v. Topeka Board of Education, U.S. District Court records
- Barbara Mertz Papers circa 1961-1978 Student protests at the University of Denver (Colo.)
- Lucinda Todd & folder list School teacher who became the first plaintiff in Brown v. Topeka Board of Education
Education
- Educate America Act - Grant Files (Kansas State Dept. of Education) FY1995-1999 Reform of local education
Labor
- Records of the Kansas Industrial Welfare Commission and Related Boards, 1916-1929 Cases concerning the improvement of working conditions and the resistance of industry leaders to making changes.
- Kansas Populist newspapers
- People's Party and the Democratic State Committees
- Socialist Party of Kansas
Politics
- Common Cause Kansas records, 1976-1995
- League of Women Voters of Kansas Records, circa 1968-1983
- William Allen White and the Ku Klux Klan (C-SPAN program)
Public Health
- Dr. Samuel J. Crumbine, 1862-1954 View records from his tenure with the Kansas State Board of Health on Kansas Memory.
- Hospital Closure Commission Files (Kansas Dept. of Administration, Division of the Budget) circa 1995-1997 State hospital reforms passed by the 1990 State Legislature
- Kansas Commission On the Future of Health Care, Inc., 1992-1994
- The Menninger Family
Religion
- Albert H. Wietharn Papers, 1910-1992 Advocated pre-Vatican II changes in the Catholic Church
Social Reform
- Charles Monroe Sheldon/Central Congregational Church collection, 1811-1984 Author of In His Steps: What Would Jesus Do?
- William E. Koch Collection, circa 1957-1981 Documented protest songs
Temperance & Prohibition
- Kansas State Temperance Union History, 1898-1916
- Kansas Woman's Christian Temperance Union/Mary Evelyn Dobbs Collection, 1885-1992
- Carry Amelia Nation Papers, 1870-1919 view the temperance crusader's diary and papers on Kansas Memory
- Reverend Richard E. Taylor, circa 1935-1992
- Temperance History, 1899-1970
- Woman's Christian Temperance Union History Collection, circa 1900 - 1916
Tort Reform
- Citizens Committee on Legal Liability (Tort Reform), 1986 Government record
Women's Rights
- American Association of University Women - Kansas Division records, circa 1928-2005 Advocates of women's equality in all aspects of society
- Moneka Woman's Rights Association, ca. 1858-1860
- Clarina I. H. Nichols, 1842-1904 early advocate for women's rights
- Woman Suffrage History Collection, 1867-1891