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Sept. 21, 2009
Business
A textile mill in Roanoke Rapids where labor organizers claimed the first major union victory in the South, an effort that inspired the 1979 movie “Norma Rae,” is closing this summer.
April 27, 2003
Movies
Remember when Norma Rae was screaming for justice for her co-workers?
Sept. 28, 1986
Crystal Lee Sutton dies at 68; union organizer inspired Oscar-winning film ‘Norma Rae’
Sept. 20, 2009
Obituaries
Crystal Lee Sutton, whose defiance of factory bosses invigorated a long-running battle to unionize Southern mill workers and formed the dramatic heart of the Academy Award-winning movie “Norma Rae,” died Sept. 11 in Burlington, N.C.
Across Times, Bodies and Space: Films by Vivienne Dick A collection of work by Irish feminist and experimental filmmaker Vivienne Dick, from her 1970s “No Wave” Super 8 films through her more recent digital videos.
March 2, 2018
In Memory of Ritt: A new fund will be established at the American Film Institute in honor of the late director Martin Ritt today, on what would have been his 78th birthday.
March 2, 1992
Sylvester Stallone will present honors in two screenplay categories at at the Writers Guild of America West annual awards ceremony next Friday.
March 11, 1988
Entertainment & Arts
Mary Munday, 71, motion picture and television actress for more than four decades.
Oct. 3, 1997
“Stephen King’s Graveyard Shift” (citywide) is set in the most derelict, ominous textile mill you could ever hope to see.
Oct. 29, 1990