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Crystal Lee Sutton
American labor activist
Crystal Lee Sutton | |
|---|---|
| Born | ()December 31, Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States |
| Died | September 11, () (aged68) Burlington, North Carolina |
| Othernames | Crystal Lee Pulley Crystal Lee Jordan |
| Occupation | Union 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