This collection contains materials from the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee's Chicago Chapter during a time when Ku Klux Klan and Neo-Nazi activity escalated in Northside and Southwest Side Chicago neighborhoods. In response to Chicago neighborhoods becoming more integrated in the 1980s, Klansmen and Neo-Nazis began to terrorize black people through firebombings, cross burnings, racist graffiti, racist attacks, and murders. The KKK and Neo-Nazi groups also gathered to intimidate the LGBTQI community on Gay Pride Day. In response, the JBAKC held a number of counter rallies and forums to confront white supremacy discuss how they can bring it down. 

This collection includes fliers promoting rallies and forums, newspaper articles covering the KKK and Neo-Nazi activity and the confrontations they had with the JBAKC's anti-racist protestors, and a few materials from the KKK.