Theresa El-Amin
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Theresa El-Amin is an African-American civil rights activist, union organizer and former member of the Green Party of the United States Steering Committee.
- [El-Amin attended Tuskegee University[1] and became an activist in 1966 with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.[2] She began working in Tuskegee and Atlanta.[3] In Atlanta, El-Amin worked for the phone company and was active in the Communications Workers of America (CWA).
- In the 1980s and 1990s, El-Amin was involved with the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW), the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Solidarity, and Black Workers for Justice (BWFJ).
- She organized clerical workers at the Cleveland Public Library.[4] Later, she helped found the United States Labor Party in 1996.[1]
- She worked with Jobs from Justice from 1993 to 2006[1] and with the Green Party of Rhode Island in the 1990s. In 1999, she became the founding director of the Southern Anti-Racism Network.[5]
- On February 5, 2013, El-Amin announced that she had been arrested in Columbus, Georgia on unspecified charges.[6] She continues to speak and organize around issues of racism, incarceration, the death penalty, and social justice.
Info
- 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.
- (Only a few items in this collection are available for view on the Internet)
- 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.
- * Stokely Carmichael - What We Want, The New York Review 1966
- * Black Power and Its Challenges - 28 Page document
