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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 related to her being fired from her job at the J.P. Stevens plant in Roanoke 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 the union activists during the J.P. Stevens controversy—one of "the ugliest episodes in labor history in the United States which took place from about to "[3] during which Stevens "repeatedly harassed or fir