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A Woman to Know: Crystal Lee Sutton

A Woman to Know: Crystal Lee Sutton

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Julia Carpenter
May 23, 2017
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I was doing something I didn't even think I could do. — Crystal Lee Sutton

(image via The New York Times)


Crystal Lee grew up in a town owned by J.P. Stevens & Company. Her parents worked at one of the company's seven mills in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina. Her grandparents had worked at another. And by the time she made it to 11th grade, Crystal was wo…

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