One of my very first posts (5/30 Peonies and Margaritas) I used a picture from the movie Norma Rae of Sally Field holding up a union sign, but it wasn’t until today that I discovered how old the real life woman was on that specific day in 1973.
Crystal Lee Sutton, a mother of 3 and the woman who inspired the movie Norma Rae, worked folding towels earning $2.65 an hour when she was fired for pro-union activity. She was told to leave the plant but she refused to go without a fight. Before the police dragged her out, she wrote “UNION” on a piece of cardboard and in her last attempt for fairness she climbed on top of a table and held up her now famous sign.
She was… 33.
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