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 [...]
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