The first group of materials pertains to Clay Fulks and his family. Biographical materials consist primarily of newspaper clippings, which include information on the Arkansas Socialist Party. The FBI report contains documents released to Stephen Smith relating to the investigation of Clay Fulks from 1941 to 1952. Fulkss newspaper writings include columns, news features, and letters to the editor. Among them is an article on Arkansas entrepreneur Harvey Couch (1932). His writings also include essays published by E. Haldeman-Julius, either as separate pamphlets or as part of an anthology with other authors. Two volumes of The American Mercury from 1926 and 1927 containing essays by Fulks are in Box 4 with other H.L. Mencken materials. Fulkss writings also include draft manuscripts. With the exception of An Errant Arkansan, an unpublished novel detailing the life of Carl Fuller, these manuscripts are arranged alphabetically by title. Several of the manuscripts date from his tenure at Commonwealth College, and topics include Arkansas culture, democracy, debt peonage, Christian fundamentalism, and Russia-U.S. relations. One manuscript is titled The Elaine Massacre. Manuscripts and other writings by Fulks concerning Commonwealth College are grouped with related materials. Items relating to James Fulks, including correspondence, are grouped separately. Bryan Fulks materials consist of newspaper articles by him as well as essays published in the United Secularists of the World publication Progressive World. It is not clear who Bryan Fulks was, though he may have been one of Clay's five brothers.

The second group of materials pertains to Commonwealth College in Mena, Arkansas. Copies of the colleges newspaper, Commonwealth College Fortnightly, comprise the bulk of these materials. Materials include writings by Clay Fulks on the college, including draft manuscripts and newspaper articles. Materials also include several copies of a three-part feature on the college by David W. Hacker published in the Arkansas Gazette in 1954. Orval Faubus materials concern the controversy over his past connections to Commonwealth College that developed during his race against Governor Francis Cherry during the Democratic gubernatorial primary in 1954.

The third group of materials includes items from the alternative press of the 1920s through the early 1960s as represented by H.L. Mencken, E. Haldeman-Julius, and others. The Atomic Era, edited by Gus A. Horack, changed its name to The Comet in January 1949. The item concerning Operation Dixie is an anti-CIO pamphlet by Joseph B. Kamp. The item concerning Joseph Shoemaker is a pamphlet put out by the Committee for the Defense of Civil Rights in Tampa, claiming that Shoemaker was murdered through the collusion of the Ku Klux Klan and law enforcement officers. Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tennessee) was a private, racially integrated adult learning center verbally attacked by Arkansas Attorney General Bruce Bennett in 1959; materials include editorials, letters, and other documents related to the controversy. The Arkansas newspaper clippings include information on a commission to investigate farm tenancy established by Governor J.M. Futrell (1936); a constitutional amendment to abolish the poll tax (ca. 1937); and a promotion of the Little Rock Chamber of Commerce (n.d.)