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Highlighted by [[Sally Field]]'s [[Academy Award|Oscar]]-winning performance, ''[[{{PAGENAME}}]]'' is the tale of an unlikely activist. A poorly-educated single mother, Norma Rae Webster works at a Southern textile mill where her attempt to improve working conditions through unionization, though undermined by her factory bosses, ultimately succeeds after her courageous stand on the factory floor wins the support of her co-workers. The film is less a polemical pro-union statement than a treatise about maturation, personal willpower, fairness and the empowerment of women.

Directed by [[Martin Ritt]], ''{{PAGENAME}}'' was based on the real-life efforts of Crystal Lee Sutton to unionize the J. P. Stevens Mills in Roanoke Rapids, N.C., which finally agreed to allow union representation one year after the film's release.

''[[{{PAGENAME}}]]'' was added to the [[National Film Registry]] in 2011.

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