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          The movie is based on the book about her by New York Times reporter Henry "Hank" Leifermann Crystal Lee: A Woman of Inheritance.

        1. The movie is based on the book about her by New York Times reporter Henry "Hank" Leifermann Crystal Lee: A Woman of Inheritance.
        2. In the late s, Hollywood producers took the published biography of Crystal Lee Sutton, a white southern textile worker, and transformed it into a.
        3. The movie Norma Rae is based on the unionizing activities of Crystal Lee Sutton, who died in (at age 68) after a long battle with brain cancer.
        4. Crystal Lee Sutton was an 11th grader in Roanoke Rapids, NC, when she got her first job at JP Stevens & Company on the 4-to-midnight shift, feeding shuttles of.
        5. In the late s, Hollywood producers took the published biography of Crystal Lee Sutton, a white southern textile worker, and transformed.

          6. The movie Norma Rae is based on the unionizing activities of Crystal Lee Sutton, who died in (at age 68) after a long battle with brain cancer.!

          Crystal Lee Sutton

          American labor activist

          Crystal Lee Sutton

          Born(1940-12-31)December 31, 1940

          Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States

          DiedSeptember 11, 2009(2009-09-11) (aged 68)

          Burlington, North Carolina

          Other namesCrystal Lee Pulley
          Crystal Lee Jordan
          OccupationUnion organizer

          Crystal Lee Sutton (née Pulley; December 31, 1940 – September 11, 2009) was an American union organizer and advocate who gained fame in 1979 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, 1973, 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 1963 to 1980"