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elamintheresa Inventory of the Theresa El-Amin Papers, 1960s-2010 Processed by: Meghan Lyon and Kelly Wooten; machine-readable finding aid created by: Meghan Lyon David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library Duke University Durham, N.C., USA

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Machine-readable finding aid derived from XML authoring program. Date of source: December 2010Processed by Meghan Lyon and Kelly Wooten, December 2010; finding aid encoded by Meghan Lyon, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, December 2010 Description is in English Finding aid was prepared using DACS and local Style Guide Inventory of the Theresa El-Amin Papers, 1960s-2010 David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library Duke University Durham, North Carolina 27708-0185 USA

Descriptive Summary David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University El-Amin, Theresa. Theresa El-Amin Papers, 1960s-2010 Material in English 30 Linear Feet 22,500 Items For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog. Activist and union organizer who was involved with the Coalition of Labor Union Women, the Service Employees International Union, the Black Radical Congress, the Black Workers for Justice, Jobs with Justice, Solidarity, and the Durham NAACP. El-Amin was also a founding member of the Labor Party and the Southern Anti-Racism Network. Organizational and subject files from El-Amin's years of activism and organizing in the Service Employees International Union, the Black Radical Congress, the Southern Anti-Racism Network, and numerous other groups and causes. Also includes publications, photographs, videotapes, and correspondence. Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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The Theresa El-Amin Papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library as a gift in 2010.

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Processed by Meghan Lyon and Kelly Wooten, December 2010

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Biographical Note

Theresa El-Amin started her career as a civil rights activist when she joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1965 as a student at Tuskegee University. On her return to Atlanta in summer of 1966, she took a job at the phone company and became active in the Communications Workers of America (CWA). During the 1980s and through the 1990s, she became involved with the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW), the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and Black Workers for Justice (BWFJ). She continued her labor organizing with Jobs from Justice from 1993-2006 and by serving on the Labor Notes Policy Committee from 2000-2009. She was a founding member of the Labor Party in 1996. Her work with anti-racist organizations has included the Black Radical Congress (1998-2008), the Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People (1999-2010), the Durham NAACP (2000-2010), and Solidarity, a socialist, feminist and anti-racist organization (1996-present). In 1998, she helped to found the Southern Anti-Racism Network (SARN), which has worked on local issues like the education gap and passing an anti-sweatshop ordinance in the City of Durham. In December 2010, El-Amin relocated to Georgia to take the role of regional organizer to direct SARN activities in Georgia and Alabama.

Collection Overview

The Theresa El-Amin Papers have been divided into series: Organizations and Movements, Subject Files, Conferences, Personal Files and Correspondence, Printed Materials, Photographs and Audiovisual, Black Liberation Historical Documents, Realia, and Oversize Materials. The largest series, Organizations and Movements, features materials from El-Amin's long career as an activist and union organizer with groups such as Black Workers for Justice, the Service Employees International Union, Jobs with Justice, the Green Party of the United States, the NAACP, the Coalition of Labor Union Women, the Black Radical Congress, Solidarity, and the Southern Anti-Racism Network. Other highlights of the Organizations and Movements series include the Black Liberation movement and the Free Mumia Abu-Jamal movement. There are also numerous other groups and movements represented within this series. Contents typically include handouts and fliers from various events; email correspondence; reports and publications from different groups, including some newsletters; and clippings with coverage of different campaigns and activities.

The Subject Files series was largely created by El-Amin, with additional subjects added in processing to account for loose pages in the collection. Topics heavily represented include Muhammad Ahmad, community organizing and its many components, healthcare, South Africa and apartheid, North Carolina, and workplace safety. There are also subject files for several countries, as well as materials about Hurricane Katrina.

The Printed Materials series includes newsletters, magazines, journals, fliers, handouts, and other miscellaneous materials from a wide variety of sources. The first box contains runs of various periodicals, including Forward Motion, In Defense of Marxism, and Labor Notes. These runs are incomplete and represent only a sampling of the publication. The second box of printed materials relates largely to El-Amin's union involvement, and features miscellaneous union publications from the 1980s-2000s. There is a small amount of earlier material, mainly in the Historical Pamphlets folder, which includes publications on desegregation and its impact on unions. The remainder of the series is also largely miscellaneous, with one or two issues of a wide range of newsletters, magazines, or organizational reports.

The small Conferences series contains conference books, fliers, correspondence, and handouts from various conferences El-Amin attended between 1985 and 2010. There is some overlap between this series and the Organizations and Movements series. Another small series is El-Amin's Personal Files and Correspondence, which consists largely of certificates and other remnants of her professional organizing education and career. This series also includes copies of her resumes and a 1997 oral history transcript.

The Photographs and Audiovisual Materials series includes large amounts of loose photographs, labeled by El-Amin, documenting many of the organizations, activities, and events referenced in earlier portions of the collection. It also includes some personal photographs of El-Amin's family and friends. The VHS tapes in this series document a range of protests and issues important to the BWFJ and El-Amin's union organizing.

Articles and pamphlets acquired by El-Amin relating to the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation movement of the 1960s are included in the Black Liberation Historical Documents series. Highlights include a transcript of Stokely Carmichael, Chairman of SNCC, speaking at the 1966 Berkeley conference on "Black Power and its Challenges." Includes articles on the condition of African Americans by Bayard Rustin, as well as coverage of the Watts riot and recovery of the Watts area. Also includes several issues of Commentary Reports from the 1960s.

The Realia series is largely unsorted, but includes three boxes of t-shirts and one box of buttons and other ephemera collected by El-Amin in her years as an activist.

Finally, the Oversize Materials contains objects withdrawn from their respective series due to their large size. These include Jobs with Justice foam boards and posters.

Subject Headings

These are searchable subject entries for this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials.

El-Amin, Theresa. Abu-Jamal, Mumia. Black Workers for Justice. Jobs with Justice. Coalition of Labor Union Women (U.S.) Black Radical Congress. Southern Anti-Racism Network. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People--Durham (N.C.) Service Employees International Union. 1199, National Health and Human Service Employee Union. Greens/Green Party USA. Labor Party Advocates (U.S.) Labor movement. Labor unions--Organizing. Anti-sweatshop movement--Durham (N.C.) Anti-war demonstrations--Washington (D.C.) Anti-apartheid activists. Political activists. Black power--History--20th century. Black nationalism--History--20th century. Solidarity. Social movements. Race discrimination. Public schools--Durham (N.C.) North Carolina--Social movements. Photographs. Videotapes. Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture. Contents of Collection Organizations and Movements, 1980s-2010 (9 boxes)

Materials in the Organizations and Movements series are from the numerous organizations and unions that El-Amin either organized for or worked with, including the Black Radical Congress, Service Employees International Union and its Organize the South campaign, Solidarity, the Coalition of Labor Union Women, the Southern Anti-Racism Network, the Ella Baker Tour, the Black Workers for Justice, and Jobs with Justice. Also includes materials from the Black Liberation movement and the movement to free Mumia Abu-Jamal. Materials include correspondence, particularly email printouts; fliers and handouts; reports and other printed material about various issues or missions within each organization; pamphlets and booklets; periodicals, including incomplete runs of BWFJ's Justice Speaks, the Solidarity Bulletins, and various SEIU magazines; union contracts; clippings and press coverage; and other miscellaneous loose material. Series has been arranged alphabetically by organization or group.

A second series in this collection related to the Black Liberation movement is the Black Liberation Historical Documents series, which is described in further detail below. There are also more organization publications and newsletters in the Printed Materials series.

1AFL-CIO, 1993-1996 AFL-CIO Rhode Island, 1986 AFSCME privitization and welfare publications, 1996 A. Philip Randolph Institute, 1988-1989 Black Liberation, 1970s-2000s (10 folders)

Includes a wide variety of publications, reports, meeting minutes, notes, and other printed material discussing the Black Liberation movement, its origina, and its activities. Includes articles discussing socialism and communism as they related to the condition of African Americans.

Black Radical Congress, 1998-2000s(3 folders) Black Radical Congress, National Organizing Conference, 2000 Black Radical Congress conference, 2008 Black Rank and File Exchange, 1987-1989 Black Solidarity Against the War, 2003 Black Workers For Justice Justice Speaks newsletters, 1987-1994 (3 folders) 2Justice Speaks newsletters, 1994-2008 (2 folders) Justice Speaks correspondence and administration, 1993 Correspondence, miscellaneous, 1982-1990 Telephone numbers Membership National Steering Committee, 1989-1991, 1993-1995(7 folders) Chapter tasks Fact sheets Bills/banking Fliers and reports Organizing Committee, 1983-1985 Schlage Lock, 1988 Independent politics, 1988 Workers Want Fairness Campaign, 1989 and undated(2 folders) Workers schools Retreats, 1991-1992(2 folders) Martin Luther King Banquets, 1990-2006(2 folders) NC Occupational Health and Safety project, 1989 Keysville (Ga.), 1990 and undated Rocky Mt. (NC) Undergarment, 1991-1992 Ina Mae Best tour, 1991-1992 Raleigh City Workers, 1992 Standard Products plant, Rocky Mt. (NC), 1993 Living Wage Campaign, 1996 Atlanta Olympics, 1996 Other Southern struggles, 1990-1991 New England solidarity Rhode Island Support Committee, 1991-1993(3 folders) Midwest Tour, 1989-1990(2 folders) 3Midwest Tour, 1990 Organize the South, 1989-1997(2 folders) Organize the South-Justice for Hamlet, 1992 Organize the South research, 1996-1997(2 folders) Organize the South postcards, 1996 Marc Gursky correspondence re: El-Amin's disability leave, 1996 BWFJ/Organize the South dispute, 1996 Campaign to end the Israeli occupation, 2007 Caribbean International Education Committee, 1992-1994 Carolina Interfaith Taskforce on Central America, 1999-2009(2 folders) Civil and Human Rights Commission, 1995 and undated Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, 1986-1990(2 folders) Coalition of Labor Union Women, 1986-1993(3 folders) Coalition of Labor Union Women newsletters, 1988-1993 Coalition of Labor Union Women printed materials, 1992-1993 and undated Direct Action for Rights and Equality, 1991-2001 Democratic Socialists of America, 1989 Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People, 2001-2007 Durham Congregations, Associations, and Neighborhoods, 2004-2005 Durham County Board of Social Services, 2008 Durham County Cable Advisory Board, 2008 Durham Housing Authority: Health and Public Housing Initiative, 2009 4Durham Public Education Network, 2001 Durham Public Schools Closing the Achievement Gap, 2000-2008 Education and testing, 2000s Ella Baker Tour and retreats, 2000-2010(7 folders) Farm Labor Organizing Committee, 1998 Freightliner Five, 2007 Green Party of the United States Triangle Green Party events, 2008 Cynthia McKinney campaign, 2008 Convention, 2008 Black Caucus, 2008 NC Green Party meetings, 2009-2010 Annual meetings, 2009-2010(2 folders) Correspondence, 2010 Heirs to a Fighting Tradition, 2006-2008 Highlander Research and Education Center, 1998-1999 Jobs with Justice JWJ materials, 1993-2000s National office materials, including correspondence, 1993-2000s Comic about welfare, 1997 Religions clippings, 1998 Workers rights and economic justice resource book, 1998 Newsletters, 1997-2002 Clippings and publicity, 1997-2000(2 folders) Regional materials, 1994-2002 and undated Triangle JWJ materials, 2000-2005 Anti-sweatshop campaigns, 2000-2007(3 folders) Building Jobs with Justice reference binder(2 folders) 5National Day of Action, 1997 Labor Notes materials, 1999-2001 Labor Party, 1996-2001 Labor Party Advocates, 1991-1996(2 folders) Labor for Jesse Jackson campaign materials and coverage, 1988-1991(2 folders) Living Wage Campaign, 1998 and undated Martin Luther King Coalition meetings, 1993 Mumia Abu Jamal Correspondence, 1991-1999 and undated Protests and rallies, 1990-2000s(2 folders) Articles and reports, 1989-2000s(3 folders) 2 audiocassettes NAACP, 2004-2005 NAACP Legislative Day, NC, 2010 NAACP Mark Stanton Curtis case, 1988-1991 and undated National Organization for Women, 2007 National Organizers Alliance, 2001-2007 1199/NEHCEU Materials and correspondence, 1989-1993 NHHSEU Union contracts, 1988-1991 and undated Newsletters, 1991-1993 New Voice, 1995 NC Coalition Against Domestic Violence, 2008-2010 6Northeast Ohio Anti-Apartheid Committee, including clippings, 1986-1989 Oppressed Nationalities Alliance for Cooperation and Progress, Malcolm X materials, 1990 and undated Oppressed Nationalities Alliance for Cooperation and Progress, notes and meeting minutes, 1990-1991 People First! Budget Coalition, 1992-1993 People of Color, 2005 Rhode Island Women's Health Collective, Board information and newsletters, 1991-1993 Rhode Island Working Women, 1993-1994 Service Employees International Union ACC Clerk Petition AFL-SEIU News, 1991-1995 African American Caucus, 1993-1996(3 folders) African American Leadership Conference, 1996 Bargaining agreements, Union of Unions, 1991-1995 Blue Cross/Blue Shield organizing, undated Brown University organizing, 1988-1991(4 folders) Reports from the Committee on the Future, 1994 Contracts, 1989-1994 Convention reports, 1996(2 folders) Correspondence, 1990-1991 Eastern Union Skills Program, 1994 Healthcare bargaining, 1986 7Healthcare reform, 1990-1995(3 folders) Healthcare worker publications, 1995 Homecare works, 1995 Inclusion: A Tool for Organizational Effectiveness, 1996 Local 285, annual convention, 1994 Local 285 New Members Kit Local Union Organizers conference, 1996 Magazines and publications, 1988-1995(2 folders) Miscellaneous documents New Voices Nurse Staffing Kit and nurse-related publications Organizing plans, 1989-1991 and undated Organize the South, 1996 Public Division Bargaining Conference, 1994 July South African Freedom Fund, 1988-1991 Staff training, 1991 and undated Supervision, 1995-1997 Union contracts, 1983-1997(2 folders) Update and other publications, 1989 Share the Wealth, 1995 8Solidarity Working papers and correspondence, 1999-2009 and undated Correspondence, 2004 Timeline notes, undated Pre-convention Bulletin, 2004 Resources Clark Atlanta University travel, 2004 Summer School, 2006-2008(2 folders) Bulletins, 1997-2008(8 folders) Staff unionism (Union of Unions) Southern Anti-Racism Network, 1999-2010 SARN materials and correspondence(2 folders) Anniversaries, 2004-2010 Labor Notes/Day School, 2000(2 folders) Highlander program, 1999 Budgets, 2000 Receipts, 2000 Correspondence, 2000 SARN-Durham Housing Authority, 2001 Strong Parental Involvement in Community Education, 2005-2007(3 folders) Southerners for Economic Justice, 1998 9TransAfrica anti-apartheid materials, 1986-1988 TWU Local 100, 1998 and undated Union Baptist Church, 2004-2010(4 folders) United States Out of the Middle East Coalition, 1990-1992(4 folders) United States Social Forum, 2007 Women In Leadership Development Board materials, 1995 and undated Summer Institute for Union Women/Working Women materials, 1992-1995 Popular Education, 1995 and undated Curricula, 1997-1998 Planning, 1997 Work First, 1998 Workers Unity Network, 1991-1996(2 folders) Subject Files, 1980s-2010 and undated (3 boxes)

While there is some overlap between the Subject Files and the Organizations and Movements series, the Subject Files are generally more generic information about a movement or topic, whereas the Organizations series highlights El-Amin's involvement in a particular group or protest. Subjects have been arranged alphabetically.

10Affirmative action(3 folders) Muhammad Ahmad(2 folders) Alternate roots, 2004-2005 Angola Anti-Apartheid Anti-Racism (Conference on Whiteness) Anti-Union Anti-War Art of Listening Black history Black-Jewish relations Black radicals The Blackman's Guide... essays, 1990 Campaign planning Cape Verde Collective bargaining(2 folders) Community Consultant letters 11Contingent worker equity campaign, 1997 Corporation for Enterprise Development publications, 1994 Criminalization/prisons Crown boycott, 1996 Cuba Cuba, Mexico, and Central America Cultural Durham politics Education Fair pay/equity Free Trade agreements Grace Lee Boggs Center, 2007 Grants Grievance handling Haiti Fred Ho Hospital organizing House calls Human rights Immigrant rights Immigration Impasse Internal organizing Healthcare, 1993-1994 Hurricane Katrina(3 folders) Ku Klux Klan Jobs and development Labor notes and factsheets Labor studies, 1989 Leadership deveopment Legal notices Liberia Samora Machel--Mozambique Malcolm X Martin Luther King Jr. speeches Media Million Man March(2 folders) NAACP, 2007 and undated National Judicial Education Program--Sexual Violence National Labor Relations Board Needlestick Prevention Factbook North Carolina nonprofits North Carolina politics North Carolina public equal employment law North Carolina public workers 12North Carolina Pride, 1999-2000 Occupational exposure to bloodborne pathogens Ohio Black Trades, 1994 Organizing model Palestine Parents group Plant closings Police brutality Privatization Public Sector Law notes, 1995 Racism Resource materials Resumes (not El-Amin's) Rhode Island TV Soapbox Saladin Muhammad/ACTWU Self-Sufficiency Standard, 1996 Sexual harassment Steward training Striker replacement Student-Labor United Nations/human rights United States Social Forum Universal healthcare Welfare laws Welfare reform Wheat Street Towers Association Witness for the Dead delegation to Colombia, 2002 Women's health Women's liberation/feminism Worker resources Workplace organizing Workplace safety Writing Printed Materials, 1978-2010 and undated (3 boxes)

Additional publications are included in the Organizations and Movements series, where they have been filed with the organization that created them. These include Solidarity Bulletins, Black Workers for Justice Justice Speaks, Coalition of Labor Women newsletters, and a wide range of union publications from the Service Employees International Union.

13Against the Current issues, 1998-2010(2 folders) Committees of Correspondence Corresponder issues, 1997-1999 Forward Motion issues, 1987-1989(2 folders) In Defense of Marxism issues, 1988-1997(7 folders) Labor Notes issues, 1991-2009(2 folders) Liberation and Marxism issues, 1989-1994 Orange County Rape Crisis Center newsletters, 2007-2008 Political Affairs issues, 1988-1997 Third Force issues, 1993-1997(2 folders) The Nation issues, 1996-2001 Vibration issues, 1987-1993 14Miscellaneous solidarity newsletters, 1989-1993 Ohio AFL-CIO magazines, 1996-1997 Dollars and Sense issues, 1992-1997 Miscellaneous union materials, 1950s-2000s Magazines from various unions, 1980s-1990s(2 folders) Newsletters and reports, 1990s-2001 Printed materials(2 folders) Historical pamphlets, 1955-1980s Pamphlets, 1970s-1990s History articles(3 folders) Reports Miscellaneous pamphlets, 1990s-2000s(2 folders) Miscellaneous newsletters(5 folders) General subjects(2 folders) Africa Education/children Environment 15Miscellaneous newsletters(5 folders) Faith/religion Labor/unions Politics/political parties Poverty/class Race/racism Clippings Miscellaneous fliers, handouts, and organizational materials, 1990s-2000s(2 folders) Miscellaneous articles and reports(3 folders) Miscellaneous journals Hal Draper: Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution, undated Mindy Thompson: National Negro Labor Council: A History, 1978 22Dissent, 1965 and 1966(2 issues) The Negro Protest, in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, January 1965 The Crisis, December 1960 What is Revolutionary Leadership?, Labour Review articles, 1964 Freedomways, W.E.B. DuBois memorial issue, 1965 Miscellaneous printed materials about Islam, 1995-1997 Miscellaneous printed materials, 2010 Personal Files and Correspondence, 1982-2009 and undated (1 box)

Includes some of El-Amin's personal documents and correspondence from her various activities. Also includes certificates from courses in organizing or other union programs, and a folder of resumes from different stages of her organizing career.

15Miscellaneous correspondence, 1996-2007(2 folders) El-Amin's resumes, 1990s and undated Oral history transcript, 1997 Marriages and divorces, 1982-1983 Certificates and training, 1984-2009 Fliers for events featuring El-Amin, 2000-2005 Black Liberation Historical Documents, 1965-1967 and undated (1 box)

Articles and pamphlets acquired by El-Amin relating to the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation movement of the 1960s. Highlights include a transcript of Stokely Carmichael, Chairman of SNCC, speaking at the 1966 Berkeley conference on Black Power and its Challenges. Includes articles on the condition of African Americans by Bayard Rustin, as well as coverage of the Watts riot and recovery of the Watts area. Also includes several issues of Commentary Reports from the 1960s.

15Sociology course bibliographies, 1967 Articles on Watts and other protests, 1960s Black Power/Black Panthers, 1960s News clippings re: Berkeley, 1960s Bayard Rustin articles, 1960s Commentary Reports, 1965 and undated Conferences, 1985-2010 (1 box)

Conference books, fliers, correspondence, and handouts from various conferences El-Amin attended. There is some overlap between this series and the Organizations and Movements series. Conferences have been arranged alphabetically.

16All Black Male Conference, 1985 Black Theodicy Forum, UNC, 2010 Aug. Black Youth in the Age of Obama, 2010 Congressional Black Caucus Fall Braintrust, 2009 Durham Human Relations Unity Conference, 2007(2 folders) Feminism: Gender, Race, and Class workshop, 2007(2 folders) LA Labor Left Conference, 2000 Labor Notes Conferences, 2001 and 2003 Labor Notes Conference: Rebuilding Labor's Power, 2008 National NOW Conference, 2007 National Organizers Alliance: NOA Gathering V, 2001 June-July Organizing in Healthcare, 1993 Southeast Social Forum, 2006 Southern Faith, Labor, and Community Alliance, 2007 Southern Human Rights Organizers Conference (SHROC VI), 2006 Dec. Southern Human Rights Organizers Conference (SHROC VII), 2008 Dec. Southern Strategies: The Economy and the Election Agenda, 2008 Veterans of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement, 2008 Mar. Work Experience Program (WEP) Coalition, 1997 Nov. Photographs and Audiovisual Materials, 1970s-2000s (2 boxes)

Photographs and videotapes from El-Amin's activities, dating from the 1970s through the 2000s. Most of the series consists of loose photographs, which El-Amin has sorted by event; there are also 4 albums with similar contents. There are photographs of several events represented in the Organizations and Movements series, including the Black Radical Congress Southern Regional Conference; SPICE graduations; union rallies and protests; political and anti-war demonstrations; meetings of groups such as Jobs with Justice, SARN, NAACP, and Black Workers for Justice; and other activist events. These have been housed by event in separate photo packets, with any accompanying information recorded on the outside of each packet. El-Amin's family photographs are much less organized, with few captions or dates included. Includes photographs of her three weddings.

The 7 VHS tapes are largely promotional or informational media produced for BWFJ or for unions.

16Loose photographs Family, loose and unsorted, 1970s-1980s and undated(3 folders) Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride, NC Mutual Building, Durham, 2003 Sept.(9 photos) BWFJ Ina Mae Best Campaign, RI, 1991(14 photos) 1199 New England fight to save the Jewish Home from closing, 1992(22 photos) Grass Roots Institute for Fundraising (GIFT), Sea Island, Ga., 2004(26 photos) 10th Anniversary of NAFTA protest, Greensboro, 2004(7 photos) SPICE Leadership Training, undated(8 photos) SPICE Graduation, Weaver St. Center, undated(27 photos) Celebrating Steve Bloom's 60th birthday with SPICE and SARN, undated(4 photos) Khalilah's Jewelry, undated(2 photos) Triangle JWJ and Labor Notes joint conference at UNC Friday Center, 2000(27 photos) Nellie Hester, Joan Gibbs, and Brenda Stokely; New York Radical Women, undated(4 photos) Families living around Durham Food Service Restaurant, before site was sold to Union Baptist Church, undated(12 photos) International Women's Day, celebrating South African women and end of apartheid, 1991 or 1992(10 photos) Witness for Peace Southeast Steering Committee meeting, 2007?(3 photos) SPICE event at The Know Bookstore, 2005 or 2006(1 photo) SARN 5th Anniversary celebration at Hayti Heritage Center and conference at Union Baptist Church, 2004 June(32 photos) Launch of Triangle JWJ, 1998 Aug.(8 photos) Anti-war demonstration, Solidarity comrades and other radicals, undated(18 photos) SPICE graduation, WD Hill, 2006(26 photos) NC NAACP Labor forum in support of Smithfield workers, 2007(18 photos) JWJ anti-sweat campaign with UNC students, at Wal-Mart, Durham, undated(10 photos) Launch of SPICE at Snow Building (SARN Office), 2001 Aug. 16(11 photos) Mayor Tennyson, Forum Against Gang Violence, City Hall, undated(15 photos) Anne Wolfley, Snow Building meeting, undated(3 photos) SPICE families attend anti-war demonstration in Washington, DC, after Katrina, 2007(1 photo) SARN office, Snow Building, 2001(1 photo) Education NOT Incarceration presentation, Michelle Cotton-Laws, Durham Main Library, 2000 or 2001(19 photos) Venezuelan dignitaries visit, undated(18 photos) Leader of failed Blue Cross campaign, Toledo, OH, 1988(1 photo) Black-Brown Unity Conference, Highlander Center, 2007 Feb.(10 photos) Labor Notes Policy Committee meeting, Detroit, undated(4 photos) District 1199-New England Jewish Home grievance victory, Providence, RI, 1991(8 photos) Labor Notes and SARN/JWJ conference, Friday Center, 2000 April(8 photos) Protest for Global Economic Justice with SPICE and Socialist Party, Washington, DC, undated(10 photos) SARN Closing the Achievement Gap forum, Daniella Cook, undated(15 photos) BWFJ Solidarity meeting with Ashaki Binta, undated(12 photos) JWJ campaign to organized Duke nurses, undated(23 photos) SPICE fundraiser at Sharon Nelson's, undated(5 photos) Labor Notes Policy Committee meeting, undated(11 photos) Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO) CAT training with SPICE, undated(12 photos) Durham NAACP officers, 2004?(4 photos) IUOE contract campaign to win community service hours from Duke, 2001(24 photos) NAACP National Convention, Detroit, 2007(15 photos) Gathering signatures and demonstrating against sweatshops, Wal-Mart, 1998 or 1999(14 photos) Anti-war demonstration with Solidarity comrades, undated(17 photos) JWJ demonstration, Rashid Muhammad and Maurice Hines, undated(12 photos) Day Against Police Brutality, Hayti Heritage Center after march from Durham Jail, Oct. 22 [unknown year](16 photos) Million Family March on Washington, DC, with Nation of Islam, 2000(28 photos) Leon Davis memorial service, attended by 1199 New England staff and leaders, 1993(1 photo) SARN Education NOT Incarceration visiting session, Durham Main Library, 2000 or 2001(24 photos) Theresa El-Amin, Rhode Island, 1997(1 photo) SARN founding conference, 1999 June(1 photo) Last days with friends in Cleveland, 1990(5 photos) Coalition of Labor Union Women, Atlanta, mid-1980s(2 photos) Coalition of Labor Union Women 5th Anniversary celebration, 1995(1 photo) Millions More movement, Washington, DC, 2005(6 photos) Black Radical Congress organizing committee before June 1998 conference, Chicago(1 photo) Conference at ERUUF on Racial Justice with Project South (Atlanta) facilitating, undated(8 photos) People of Faith gathering in support of UFCW Smithfield campaign and Sabbath Economics, Summer 2007 or 2008(24 photos) Justice for Mumia Rally, Philadelphia, with Solidarity comrades, undated(21 photos) JWJ National meeting, Kentucky?, undated(5 photos) SARN Education NOT Incarceration campaign launch, Close the Achievement Gap, 2000 Aug.(24 photos) JWJ rally at McDonald's to raise minimum wage, Providence, RI, 1995 or 1996(3 photos) Poor Peoples March and Rally, Philadelphia, 2001?(18 photos) SEIU Local 285-African American Caucus meeting, 1995(13 photos) NOW Detroit meeting, 2007 July(8 photos) Passing anti-sweatshop ordinance in Durham, 2000 Aug.(8 photos) Triangle JWJ-Union Baptist Church, Durham, 1999(14 photos) Launch of Organize the South Midwest Tour, Cleveland, Ohio, 1989(7 photos) Project South and Triangle JWJ at ERUUF, Durham, 2000(9 photos) 17Photograph albums Unlabeled activism album Black Radical Congress Southern Regional Conference, undated(3 albums) VHS tapes Organize the South, BWFJ Justice for Keysville Now! Workers Want Fairness documentary--Rocky Mtn. Undergarment and Workers Unity Council, 1989 Nov. 9 Toxic Terrorism--the Shiloh Coalition Fights Back BWFJ Meeting, 1992 Mar. 7 Ina Mae Best, CCRI, Providence, 1991 May 31 Hamlet, NC: Our Jobs, Our Lives? (BWFJ) Realia, undated (4 boxes)

Includes 3 boxes of t-shirts and 1 box of buttons and other ephemera collected by El-Amin throughout her years of activism.

18T-shirts 19T-shirts 20T-shirts 21Buttons, bumper stickers, name tags, etc. Oversize materials, undated (1 folder)

Foam boards and one poster from Jobs with Justice.

16 Jobs with Justice foam boards with Durham community signatures for Nurses United for Patient Advocacy at Duke University Medical Center Trabajos con Justicia poster