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Norma Rae

Norma Rae Wilson. That’s who I am. I grew up in the same small southern town in which I now live, and I have basically been around a lot of the same persons all my life. Just a few years ago I was still living with my parents house, a simple mother of two with a less than perfect past and seemingly no more opportunity for advancement and betterment of my life than the frequent irritation and annoyance my vocal nature evoked in my supervisors at the textile factory in which I worked. Together with my parents, I helped already wealthy and influential men with hearts of stone become more wealthy as they profited from the labor of workers like myself without providing us with proper safety equipment, benefits and in general, humane working conditions. My frustration had been long building, but peaked when I realized that my poor mother had gone partially deaf under those conditions. Still besides taking as much vocal liberty as I dared with the administration, I felt there was little I c...

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