The Edmund G. Brown, Jr. papers comprise the papers of Jerry Brown during his tenure as California Secretary of State (1971-1975) and his first two terms as the Governor of California (1975-1983). Over the course of his career, Jerry Brown has served as the California Secretary of State (1971-1975), the 34th Governor of California (1975-1983), the Mayor of Oakland (1999-2007), the Attorney General of California (2007-2011), and the 39th Governor of California (2011-2019).

Collection consists of U.S. State Department Passport File and an FBI file on American actor Burt Lancaster.

This collection consists of transcripts of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). HUAC was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives used to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having either fascist or communist ties.

This small collection chiefly contains photocopies of documents related to the deportation case of Diamond Kimm, a Korean resident of Los Angeles, whose legal case denying a suspension of deportation after refusing to say whether he was a Communist in the 1950s went to the Supreme Court (Kimm v. Rosenberg, 363 U.S. 405).

This collection consists of land reform documents from the government of El Salvador to the United States Department of State prior to and during the Salvadoran Civil War.