The collection consists of writings, correspondence, project files, teaching materials, journals, photographs, printed material, personal papers, and audiovisual and computer media documenting the life and career of French-Tunisian author, critic, and philosopher Albert Memmi. Included are drafts, notes, research material, reviews, and fan mail related to works by Memmi such as La Libération du juif; Portrait du colonisé, précédé du portrait du colonisateur; Portrait du décolonisé arabo-musulman et de quelques autres; Le racisme; and Statue de sel. The collection contains extensive notes and drafts for articles, essays, lectures, speeches, interviews, and unpublished works on decolonization, African Americans, women, Jewish identity, North African literature, antisemitism, racism, oppression, happiness, and alcohol dependency. Memmi's journals, dating from 1936 to 2019, document his early life, work, and travels, in particular his brief imprisonment in a Nazi labor camp during World War II, and later his expulsion from Tunisia following independence from France. Among the correspondents in the collection are writers, educators, activists, artists, and politicians including James Baldwin, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Mark Chagall, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Shimon Peres, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Elie Wiesel; anti-racist and human rights groups such as Mouvement contre le racisme et pour l'amitié entre les peuples; and figures associated with the Négritude movement, including Alioune Diop, a Senegalese writer, editor, and founder of the journal Présence africaine, and poet Léopold Séndar Senghor, the first president of Senegal.