The Lawrence Guyot, Jr. papers span from 1887 to 2012 with the bulk of the collection ranging from 1963 to 2006. The collection documents Guyot's involvement in D.C. government and activism for voting rights, neighborhood revitalization, as well as his time serving as Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner in the LeDroit Park neighborhood and as a program monitor for the D.C. Department of Human Services’ Office of Early Childhood Development. Documents include flyers, correspondence, reports, briefings, printed material and subjects that appear include the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics, the D.C. Board of Zoning and Adjustments, the Council of D.C., the Advisory Neighborhood Commision, the Columbia Heights neighborhood, LeDroit Park, Howard University, and the Naitonal Capital Revitalization Corporation, among other subjects.