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September 15, 2009

Crystal Lee Sutton, Inspired Norma Rae, 68, Dies
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And Crystal Lee Sutton has died at the age of sixty-eight. Her fight to
unionize Southern textile plants with low pay and poor conditions was
dramatized in the film Norma Rae.



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