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Crystal Lee Sutton
Crystal Lee Sutton (born 1941 - September 11, 2009) was an American Union organizer who served as the inspiration for iconic Sally Field movie "Norma Rae."
Crystal Lee Sutton, the inspiration for Sally's Field Oscar-winning performance in Norma Rae (1979) died earlier this month of brain cancer at 68. Her many years working in the substandard environments of Carolina cotton mills for low wages led her ultimately to fight for improved conditions and unionizing Southern textile plants. The scene in Norma Rae in which Sally Field stands on a table in the plant with a cardboard sign reading UNION...
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Crystal Lee Sutton, the real "Norma Rae," just died after struggling with her insurer to pay for medical coverage. Linda Meric says health care reform responds to Sutton's death and passing the Employee Free Choice Act will honor her life's work.
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From womensenews.org
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THURS 10/1 | Crystal Lee Sutton, the real "Norma Rae," just died after struggling with her insurer to pay for medical coverage. Linda Meric explains how health care reform responds to Sutton's death and passing the Employee Free Choice Act will honor her life's work.
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From southernstudies.org
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Check this out! This story was taped for the Fall 2009 World Can't Wait National Meeting and played during the panel on Abortion, Women's Lives, and the Democrat's Women-Killing Abortion Ban. Jamilah's bold story of standing up to anti-abortion activists at her school, a la Norma Jean (the Sally Field movie), brought cheers from the audience and should inspire many more...Read Jamilah's article about the action here.
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From open.salon.com
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Thirty years ago Sally Field won the Best Actress Academy Award for her gritty portrayal of Norma Rae, a widowed small-town Southern textile-mill worker. Even those who haven't seen the entire movie have viewed stills or clips of a sweaty Field standing atop a work bench holding over her head a piece of cardboard with UNION written in black letters.
The scene portrayed happened verbatim to the woman who inspired the movie, Crystal Lee Sutton...
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From blog.mises.org
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I was pleased to see Lorraine Ahearn's positive article, "Remembering a labor icon," in the News & Record (Sept. 14). "Even the Baptist preacher seemed hard-pressed to fit Sutton's sprawling life into the margins of his sermon," Ahearn pointed out about the funeral service for Crystal Lee Sutton.read more
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From news-record.com
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How many feature Hollywood movies can you name with the hero a rank-and-file
woman worker who leads a successful union organizing drive against a powerful
union-busting corporation?
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From workers.org
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Hollywood Activists, Or How Norma Rae Got Norma Raed by Ned Rice The cruel exploitation of the impoverished masses has been a staple of Hollywood storytelling since the earliest days of movie making. In fact, thanks to big-screen classics from The Grapes of Wrath to Slumdog Millionaire you might say that grinding poverty has been a real gold mine for Tinseltown. Given Hollywoods progressive politics you might also think that a good chunk of...
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From freerepublic.com
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Norma Lee Immel, 67, died at 4:55 p.m. Oct. 24, 2009, at St. Rita’s Medical Center.
She was born Sept. 15, 1942, in Hazard, Ky., to Jesse James and Dora Rae Huff Caudill, who preceded her in death. On Sept. 15, 1990, she married Guenter Immel,...
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From limaohio.com
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Murcia.comLa IV Semana Sindical arranca con una visión crítica de la realidad ...Murcia.comSerá a partir de las 17:00 horas, cuando comience el cine-coloquio “Derechos Sociales”, con la proyección de la película de 1979, “Norma Rae” del director ...
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