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Alabama Film Week: Norma Rae (1979) Sponsored by NELA-AL
Dir. Martin Ritt
Starring Sally Field, Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman
Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.
Filming Locations: Opelika, AL & Waverly, AL
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