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Sept. 11, 2009
Crystal Lee Sutton, the real-life Norma Rae of the movie, dies at the age of 68. She worked at a J.P. Stevens textile plant in Roanoke Rapids, N.C., when low pay and poor working conditions led her to become a union activist. 

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