The collection is composed of materials related to the administration and operation of the Maryland State Board of Education, dating from 1938 to 1967. It contains correspondence, meeting minutes, agendas, reports, newsletters, and policy manuals. The meeting minutes comprise the bulk of the collection, and reveal the legislative process of the Board, including payments and contracts, construction reports, appointments or separations of teachers and other staff, and the determination of their salaries. The bulk of the correspondence is from the Maryland State Department of Education, and is chiefly addressed to M. Theresa Wiedefeld and Earle T. Hawkins, respective Presidents of the State Teachers College at Towson, regarding matters discussed at the various meetings. There is also a report prepared for the State Board of Education and the Attorney-General of Maryland, and drafted as a result of the 1954 United States Supreme Court case, Brown vs. Board of Education. It is signed by William S. Schmidt, Chairman of the Superintendent’s Committee on Desegregation of the Public Schools of Maryland.