"After months trying to organize co-workers, Ms. Sutton was fired. When the police, summoned by the management, came to take her away, she made one last act of defiance.
"'I took a piece of cardboard and wrote the word "union" on it in big letters, got up on my worktable, and slowly turned it around,' she said in the interview. 'The workers started cutting their machines off and giving me the victory sign. All of a sudden the plant was very quiet.'"
Dennis Hevesi in The New York Times writes an obit for Crystal Lee Sutton, the inspiration for Norma Rae.
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