http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/09/12/norma-rae-dead-health-insurer/
Yesterday, The Million "Morans" March spectacle allowed us to witness thousands of Americans come out in droves to advocate for this policy...
"The woman whose life inspired the 1979 film Norma Rae has died of cancer after struggling with her health insurance company, which had delayed her treatment.
Crystal Lee Sutton was 68. She had struggled for several years with meningioma, a form of brain cancer.
She became a hero to the labor movement in the 1970s, when she took on her employer, a North Carolina textile plant, and unionized the factory floor. Her story became famous nationwide in 1975 after New York Times reporter Hank Leiferman wrote Crystal Lee: A Woman of Inheritance."
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