Crystal Lee Jordan

Duration: 16

Genre: Documentary | Women

Year Published: 1974

Creator: KERA-TV

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Follows Crystal Lee Jordan--wife, mother, and blue-collar worker--in her attempt to establish a union in the J.P. Stevens textile mills in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina. Explains that Ms. Jordan was dismissed by J.P. Stevens after being employed there for 17 years as a millhand. Shows her encouraging other workers to unionize, marching in picket lines, and handing out leaflets and also the support she gets from her husband and three children. Finalist, 1976 American Film Festival.

Complete Record: Follows Crystal Lee Jordan--wife, mother, and blue-collar worker--in her attempt to establish a union in the J.P. Stevens textile mills in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina. Explains that Ms. Jordan was dismissed by J.P. Stevens after being employed there for 17 years as a millhand. Shows her encouraging other workers to unionize, marching in picket lines, and handing out leaflets and also the support she gets from her husband and three children. Finalist, 1976 American Film Festival., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.