Lilly Ledbetter, whose gender pay equity legal fight was the inspiration for the Fair Pay Act of 2009, has died at age 86. Ledbetter died of respiratory failure, her family said in a statement ...

Ledbetter filed suit, and was awarded $3.8 million in back pay and damages. But a court of appeals overturned the verdict. She never saw a dime. Patricia Clarkson as Lilly Ledbetter in the film ...

The equal pay activist Lilly Ledbetter made headlines in 2007 when she sued her employer, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, for gender discrimination, resulting in a Supreme Court case and ...

Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actress Patricia Clarkson joins Morning Joe to discuss starring as equal pay-activist Lilly Ledbetter in 'Lilly,' a movie that follows Ledbetter from an Alabama ...

Lilly Ledbetter was born in 1938, in Jim Crowe Alabama, on a dirt farm with no electricity or running water. She was an only child who grew up in poverty, picking cotton at the age of eight for ...

Lilly is saved by a few of its actors. John Benjamin Hickey, as Charles Ledbetter, is convincing in his sweet relationship with his wife, even if the actor isn't given much to do except recite his ...

JACKSONVILLE – Lilly Ledbetter was a poor child growing up in the Possum Trot community north of Jacksonville. Despite her hardships while growing up, she graduated from high school, married ...

EXCLUSIVE: Blue Harbor Entertainment will release the Patricia Clarkson -starring drama Lilly, based on the true story of working-class hero Lilly Ledbetter, exclusively in theaters beginning May ...

Lilly Ledbetter was born in 1938, in Jim Crowe Alabama, on a dirt farm with no electricity or running water. She was an only child who grew up in poverty, picking cotton at the age of eight for ...