Crystal Lee Sutton

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1. November 7-8, 1980 Machinists president William Winpinsinger and Crystal Lee Sutton speak at a UNC labor forum A weekend forum on labor organizing at UNC brought International Association of Machinists president William Winpinsinger to Gerrard Hall on November 7, 1980, where he told more than 200 people that much of labor's potential for the 1980s lay in the Carolinas; state AFL-CIO president Wilbur Hobby also spoke. On November 8 Crystal Lee Sutton, whose union work at J.P. Stevens inspired the film Norma Rae, spoke in Hamilton Hall. People: Wilbur Hobby, Crystal Lee Sutton Place: Gerrard Hall and Hamilton Hall, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: William Winpinsinger · Also mentions: Gerrard HallSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, November 10, 1980, p. 1
2. November 14-17, 1983 The Campus Y holds Human Rights Week, with Crystal Lee Sutton and Amnesty International's director From November 14 to 17, 1983, the Campus Y's Human Rights Week, a forum titled Human Rights, Human Wrongs, brought Crystal Lee Sutton, whose union fight at a J.P. Stevens mill inspired the film Norma Rae, to Hamilton Hall on November 15 and Amnesty International USA director Jack Healey to Carroll Hall for the keynote on November 16. The week also included a Carolina Gay Association seminar on AIDS and gay civil rights, a talk by exiled Polish Solidarity leaders and a Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie concert in Memorial Hall on November 17. People: Crystal Lee Sutton Place: Hamilton Hall, Carroll Hall and Memorial Hall, UNC campus, Chapel Hill · Also named: Jack Healey · Also mentions: Carroll Hall, Memorial HallSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, November 16, 1983, p. 1