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Consists of a 1977 letter of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) to shareholders of J.P. Stevens, requesting that they support two proxy resolutions before the J.P. Stevens Board of Directors. The resolutions ask that J.P. Stevens release employment data to demonstrate whether or it complied with equal opportunity employment laws, and that the Board fully explain the company's labor policies to shareholders.

Consists of the 1979 report of a United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (UPCUSA) task force created to study the labor dispute between J.P. Steven and the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU), as well as a subsequent UPCUSA resolution supporting the J.P. Stevens boycott.

Consists of a 1980 statement of the Commission on Religion in Appalachia (CORA) supporting the organizing activities of J.P. Stevens workers.

Consists of a 1980 excerpt from the Daily Christian Advocate, the official bulletin of the United Methodist Church (UMC), containing a resolution supporting the J.P. Stevens boycott, a minority resolution arguing that the UMC should spend more time studying the boycott issue, and a transcript of deliberations related to both resolutions.

Consists of a February 1977 Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) press release on a leaflet campaign promoting the J.P. Stevens boycott in Atlanta, and a c. 1977 ACTWU press release on efforts to force J.P. Stevens to release information on its hiring and labor relations practices through shareholder proxy resolutions.

Consists of correspondence related to efforts to force J.P. Stevens to release information on its hiring and labor relations practices through shareholder proxy resolutions. Topics includes the role of religious organizations holding J.P. Stevens stock in the resolution campaign and instructions for volunteers on how to promote the campaign to shareholders.

Consists of the agenda for a March 1979 Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) meeting on the importance of securing a union contract with J.P. Stevens, held just prior to the 1979 J.P. Stevens shareholders meeting. Also includes notecards on workplace discrimination by J.P. Stevens

Consists of a 1979 Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) fact sheets on J.P. Stevens and the J.P. Stevens boycott, including information on the employment discrimination, occupational health issues, and mistreatment of unionized J.P. Stevens workers. Includes booklet, draft, and individually-printed fact sheets.

Consists of a 1980 pamphlet by the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) calling out employment discrimination, workplace safety law violations, and anti-union activity by J.P. Stevens during 1979.

Consists of flyers and a program for a March 1980 screening of the film Norma Rae, a dramatization of a 1973-1974 labor organizing struggle by J.P. Stevens workers, in support of the ongoing J.P. Stevens boycott. The screening included remarks from Crystal Lee Sutton, the inspiration for the film's title character.

Consists of miscellaneous printed materials related to the J.P. Stevens boycott, including a summary of boycott activities, a flyer announcing the boycott, a roster of boycott organizers, and a memo on appropriate conduct while promoting the boycott.

Consists of miscellaneous printed materials related to the J.P. Stevens boycott, including a syllabus for an Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) training course and pro-boycott cards. Also includes notes of E.T. Kehrer on a boycott planning meeting.

Consists of newspaper articles on the J.P. Stevens boycott, as well a 1976 press release of Southerners for Economic Justice (SEJ).

Consists of three magazine articles on labor issues in the textile industry. Includes a 1976 article from AFL-CIO magazine American Federationist criticizing the labor practices of J.P. Stevens, a 1976 article from textile trade magazine Clothes about J.P. Stevens workers opposed to union bargaining, and a 1980 article from Business Atlanta magazine on the future of the southern U.S. textile industry.

Consists of a transcript of a March 13, 1977 60 Minutes segment on the J.P. Stevens boycott and Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) organizing at J.P. Stevens plants.