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  2. Norma Rae - Wikipedia

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    The movie's plot is based on events from the life of textile worker and union organiser Crystal Lee Sutton, who fought the J.P. Stevens Textiles mill in her hometown Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina. The scene where Norma Rae writes "UNION" on a sheet of cardboard and stands on a table until her co-workers shut off their machines is closely based ...

  3. Crystal Lee Sutton - Wikipedia

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    Crystal Lee Sutton (née Pulley; December 31, 1940 – September 11, 2009) was an American union organizer and advocate who gained fame in 1979 when the film Norma Rae was released, based on events related to her being fired from her job at the J.P. Stevens plant in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, on May 30, 1973, for "insubordination" after she copied an anti-union letter posted on the ...

  4. Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    Roanoke Rapids (/ ˈ r oʊ ə ˌ n oʊ k /) is a city in Halifax County, North Carolina, United States.The population was 15,754 at the 2010 census. [4] It is the principal city of the Roanoke Rapids Micropolitan Statistical Area, and is also an anchor city of the Rocky Mount-Wilson-Roanoke Rapids CSA, with a total population of 297,726 as of 2018.

  5. List of people from North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    Eddie Biedenbach (born 1945), basketball player for NBA's Los Angeles Lakers, Phoenix Suns, and for North Carolina State University, NC Sports Hall of Fame (Wrightsville Beach) Ryan Blaney (born 1993), NASCAR driver ( High Point) Arthur Bluethenthal (1891–1918), college football player and World War I pilot.

  6. Roanoke Rapids Historic District - Wikipedia

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    Roanoke Rapids Historic District is a national historic district located at Roanoke Rapids, Halifax County, North Carolina. It encompasses 1,130 contributing buildings, 5 contributing sites, 27 contributing structures, and 1 contributing structure in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of the town of Roanoke ...

  7. List of television stations in North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    Roanoke Rapids: 36 27 WUNP-TV: The Explorer Channel satellite of WUNC-TV ch. 4 Chapel Hill PBS on 36.2, PBS Kids on 36.3, The North Carolina Channel on 36.4 Fayetteville: 40 22 WUVC-DT: UNI: UniMás on 40.2, Bounce TV on 40.3, getTV on 40.4, True Crime Network on 40.5, Quest on 40.6 Rocky Mount: 47 32 WRPX-TV: Ion

  8. Carolina Crossroads - Wikipedia

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    Carolina Crossroads. Coordinates: 36°24.3′N 77°37.9′W. Carolina Crossroads is a 1,000-acre (4.0 km 2) planned entertainment development near Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina located near the intersection of I-95 and US 158. The development was hoped to bring new jobs to the area which had been affected in recent years as textile mills ...

  9. Chris Daughtry - Wikipedia

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    Chris Daughtry was born in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina on December 26, 1979, [4] and raised in Lasker, North Carolina, until he was 14.His parents, Sandra and James "Pete" Daughtry, [5] reside in Palmyra, Virginia, where Daughtry grew up before he relocated to McLeansville, outside of Greensboro.

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