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The Real “Norma Rae” Dies‏

Labor organizer succumbed to long battle with brain cancer
from Associated Press
Mon., Sept . 14, 2009
RALEIGH, North Carolina – Crystal Lee Sutton, whose fight to unionize Southern textile plants with low pay and poor conditions was dramatized in the film “Norma Rae,” has died. She was 68.
Sutton died Friday in a hospice after a long battle [...]

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