An educator, lesbian feminist, writer, and activist, Charlotte Bunch organized a women's caucus within the Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam and represented the United States women's liberation movement during a peace trip to North Vietnam and Laos. She subsequently helped organize the first International Conference of North American and Indochinese Women held in Toronto, Canada, in 1971. Her collections include documentation regarding Bunch’s anti-Vietnam War activities, including pamphlets, buttons, posters, statements, and photographs. See also Additional Papers of Charlotte Bunch

Anna Chennault was an author, lecturer, business consultant, citizen-diplomat, widow of General Claire Chennault, and active member of the Republican Party. In 1968, she played a part, though accounts differ as to the extent of it, in the October Surprise (the collapse of peace talks between North and South Vietnam, which was a major factor in the election of Richard Nixon to the United States presidency). In October of that year, Chennault was placed under FBI surveillance, due to Lyndon Johnson's suspicions of her activities; she was recorded speaking with the South Vietnamese embassy, encouraging the delay of the peace talks and stating that a Nixon presidency would benefit South Vietnam. The collection includes articles, essays, speeches, etc. regarding events in Asia, including the Vietnam War, democracy, and communism, and an annotated draft concerning her role in the 1968 October Surprise. Some materials have been digitized and are available through the finding aid.

The Women's Hearing on the War in Vietnam, initiated by members of the St. Louis branch of the Women's Political Caucus and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, was held in Christ Church Cathedral, St. Louis, Missouri, on June 17, 1972. This collection contains the testimony of thirty-seven women on the legal, medical, environmental, economic, moral, and political impact of the Vietnam War.

A feminist lesbian author and activist, Barbara Deming protested the war in Vietnam. In 1966, she, A.J. Muste, Brad Lyttle, and others went to Saigon, seat of the United States-supported South Vietnamese government, to stage a protest. They were expelled from the country. At the end of the year, she went with three other American women to North Vietnam to meet Ho Chi Minh and members of the National Liberation Front and to tour areas devastated by United States forces. The papers document the peace movement in the 1960s, particularly the War Resisters League, the Committee for Nonviolent Action, Women Strike for Peace, and its use of nonviolent direct action.

This collection contains one folder of letters to Ava Hochstatter from Captain James Alexander while he was stationed in Vietnam. He did not survive the war.

Lamb was a research analyst for the Foreign Economic Administration of the U.S. government and for the Center for International Studies at MIT, where she studied India's economy. Later in life she was active in civil liberties work and a leader of the anti-Vietnam War protest, as a result of which she was included on President Nixon's Enemies List of 1973. Most of the collection pertains to Lamont's work and published writing on Vietnam, including correspondence with individuals and organizations in the U.S. and abroad, speeches, radio programs, and interviews with Vietnamese exiles in Paris for a 1963 article in The Nation.

Peace activist Cynthia Rich was a member of Voice of Women--New England (VOW-NE), a group formed in 1961 to work "toward the goal of a world without war" by focusing on such issues as war toys, atmospheric nuclear testing, civil defense, and foreign policy decisions. It attempted to influence politicians and others through letters, speeches, peace demonstrations, and educational programs. From 1965 through 1968, Rich represented VOW-NE at Coalition Politics, an organization designed to facilitate the exchange of information among peace groups in New England. The Rich papers include letters to politicians and to other peace activists. Most of the papers relate to VOW-NE. The group's focus on civil defense and disarmament is documented by correspondence, clippings, flyers, speeches, and reports that address both sides of the issue. Also included are correspondence, minutes, reports, and statements of the organization Coalition Politics.