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NOTEWORTHY DEATH

Posted: September 15, 2009 at 5:09 a.m.

Crystal Lee Sutton, whose fight to unionize Southern textile plants with low pay and poor conditions was dramatized in the 1979 film Norma Rae, has died. She was 68.

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