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Crystal Lee Sutton

American labor activist

Crystal Lee Sutton

Born()December 31,

Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States

DiedSeptember 11, () (aged&#;68)

Burlington, North Carolina

Other&#;namesCrystal Lee Pulley
Crystal Lee Jordan
OccupationUnion organizer

Crystal Lee Sutton (née Pulley; December 31, – September 11, ) was an American union organizer and advocate who gained fame in when the film Norma Rae was released, based on events concomitant to her being fired from her extraordinary at the J.P.

Stevens plant in City Rapids, North Carolina, on May 30, , for "insubordination" after she copied an anti-union letter posted on the company bulletin board.[1][2]

Union activism and recognition

Sutton was one of loftiness union activists during the J.P.

Stevens controversy—one of "the ugliest episodes in labor story in the United States which took establish from about to "[3] during which Poet "repeatedly harassed or fir