Crystal Lee Sutton

Photo: elle.com "The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off" Gloria Steinem Crystal Lee Sutton became a hero to the labor movement in the 1970s, when she took on her employer, a North Carolina textile plant, and unionized the factory floor. Her story became famous nationwide in 1975 after New York Times reporter Hank Leiferman wrote Crystal Lee: A Woman of Inheritance. In 1979, her story was turned into the movie 'Norma Rae', a thinly-veiled fictional adaptation of Sutton’s...Read Full Story

Norma Rae [VHS] Sally Field (Actor), Beau Bridges (Actor), Martin Ritt (Director) | Format: VHS Tape (34)Buy new: $7.97 56 used & new from $1.06(Visit the Most Gifted in Drama list for authoritative information on this product's current rank.)Review & DescriptionVeteran director Martin Ritt (Sounder) directed this earnest and very popular tale of a naive textile worker, widow, and mother in the U.S. South who becomes empowered by standing up for her rights in the workplace. Sally Field stars...Read Full Story

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Monday 14 September 2009 by: Sue Sturgis | Facing SouthThe North Carolina union organizer who was the inspiration for the movie "Norma Rae" died on Friday of brain cancer after a battle with her insurance company, which delayed her treatment. She was 68. Crystal Lee Sutton, formerly Crystal Lee Jordan, was fired from her job folding towels at the J.P. Stevens textile plant in herRead Full Story

Real 'Norma Rae' dies of cancer after insurer delayed treatmentThe North Carolina union organizer who was the inspiration for the movie "Norma Rae" died on Friday of brain cancer after a battle with her insurance company, which delayed her treatment. She was 68.Crystal Lee Sutton, formerly Crystal Lee Jordan, was fired from her job folding towels at the J.P. Stevens textile plant in her hometown of Roanoke Rapids, N.C. for trying to organize a union in the early 1970s. Her last action at the...Read Full Story

Crystal Lee Sutton the inspiration of Sally Field’s Character in a 1979 movie Norma Rae has died at age 68.  It is reported that Sutton died from brain cancer in the Burlington Hospice Home in Burlington, North Carolina. According to Sutton herself in an article from Facing South the health insurer delayed treatment. Read the Facing South article for more information about her treatment and history as a labor activist. Real ‘Norma Rae’ dies of cancer after insurer delayed treatment The...Read Full Story

Photo of Crystal Sutton, the inspiration for the movie Norma Rae, at the time of a reception in her honor on June 12, 2007 on the ocassion of her donation of her papers to Almanance Community College.At the age of 33 in 1973, she worked at the J.P. Stevens plant in Roanoke Rapids, N.C., making $2.65 an hour folding towels, after having been employed by the company since the age of 17. She joined forces with Eli Zivkovich, a union organizer from West Virginia, in an attempt to improve working...Read Full Story

Bow your heads, take a moment and say a little prayer, for the Summer of Death has laid claim to another. The woman who inspired the 1979 movie ‘Norma Rae’ has died. North Carolina’s Crystal Lee Sutton (at left with Sally Field) lost her long battle with brain cancer. She was only 68. Sutton’s fight to change the insultingly low pay and devilishly poor conditions at the Southern textile plant where she worked was chronicled in the 1975 book Crystal Lee, a woman of inheritance by New York...Read Full Story

1. Dr. Norman Gary held 109 honeybees in his closed mouth for the required 10 seconds, on October 20, 1998, in Los Angeles, California, USA, to claim the world record. 2. George Burns was once quoted as saying ‘Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city’. 3. The formal name of the common housefly is ‘Musca Domestica’. 4. Jane Fonda turned down the title role in the movie ‘Norma Rae’, which won a Best Actress Oscar for its eventual star Sally Field. 5. The...Read Full Story

Real 'Norma Rae' dies of cancer after insurer delayed treatmentThe North Carolina union organizer who was the inspiration for the movie "Norma Rae" died on Friday of brain cancer after a battle with her insurance company, which delayed her treatment. She was 68.Read the rest.Source: Facing SouthRead Full Story