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21. Ibid., 27.
22. Ibid., 29.
23. Larry Jones, “Hall of Fame for Genora Dollinger,” Searchlight, Sept. 1994, 6.
24. Ronda Hauben, “Carl Johnson: A Pioneer Labor Journalist,” unpublished essay, 1, Dollinger Collection, Los Angeles.
25. Janice Hassett, “Never Again Just a Woman: Women of the Auxiliary and Emergency Brigade in the General Motors Sit-Down Strike of 1937” (senior thesis, Mills College, 1994), 14.
26. Jones, “Hall of Fame for Genora Dollinger.”
27. M. Kent Jennings, “Women in Party Politics,” in Women, Politics, and Change, ed. Louise A. Tilly and Patricia Guren (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1990), 55.
28. Alice Kessler-Harris, “Where Are the Organized Women Workers?” in A Heritage of Her Own: Toward a New Social History of American Women, ed. Nancy Cott and Elizabeth H. Pleck (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979), 347.
29. Oscar Ameringer (1870–1943) was born in Germany and arrived in Oklahoma in 1907. The greatest influences on his young life were the reformers Henry George and Edward Bellamy. Werner Sombart’s book Socialism and the Socialist Movement in the Nineteenth Century was also important to Ameringer, as was Eugene Debs. In his autobiography If You Don’t Weaken (New York: Greenwood Press, 1940) Ameringer said of him, “Gene Debs was the dreamer, poet, and prophet of the weary and heavy-laden.” In Oklahoma, Ameringer held meetings wherever there might be socialist-inclined people: “Gathering my little flock together, I started preaching Marxism. At every meeting pamphlets were sold, subscriptions and applications for membership taken” (267).
30. Sol Dollinger, “Formative Years,” 12.
31. Sol Dollinger to the author, June 29, 1999.
32. Genora to Lora Albro, n.d., Dollinger Collection, box 2, folder 2, Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan (hereafter cited as Reuther Library).
33. Genora’s notes, Dollinger Collection, Los Angeles.
34. Gluck interview, 38.
35. Genora to Lora Albro, n.d., Dollinger Collection, box 2, folder 2, Reuther Library. Showing that she still disdained her father, Genora put this postscript to her letter: “I remembered dad’s birthday and almost sent him a card but do you know I couldn’t give him the satisfaction of thinking I remembered it because of the way he treated you on your birthday.” The author is grateful to Sol Dollinger for sharing this story and many others about Genora, his wife of more than fifty years.
36. Brenda Fowler, “History and a Name in a Vienna Project,” New York Times, July 11, 1991.
37. Sol Dollinger, interview with the author, Oct. 31, 1997.
38. Genora Dollinger, interview at UCLA, May 1976, Dollinger Collection, Los Angeles.
39. Robert Kilroy-Silk, Socialism Since Marx (New York: Taplinger, 1972), 122–23.
40. Bertram D. Wolfe, Marxism: One Hundred Years in the Life of a Doctrine (New York: Dial Press, 1965), 20. See also Joseph M. Schwartz, The Permanence of the Political: A Democratic Critique of the Radical Impulse to Transcend Politics (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press, 1995), 23–24.
41. Sol Dollinger [Jerry Kirk, pseudo.], position paper; Sol Dollinger to the author, June 29, 1999.
42. Sol Dollinger, interview with the author, Oct. 31, 1997.
43. She told Victor Reuther in 1988, “I am still a Socialist (albeit an unaffiliated one for the past 32 years).” Genora to Victor Reuther, July 25, 1988, Dollinger Collection, box 2, folder 7, Reuther Library.
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1. Carlton Jackson, “The 1930s,” in The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies Have Portrayed the American Past, ed. Peter Rollins (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2003), 22.
2. Arthur M. Schlesinger, The Crisis of the Old Order (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957), 8.
3. See Striking Flint: Genora (Johnson) Dollinger Remembers the 1936–37 General Motors Sit-Down Strike, with Susan Rosenthal (Chicago: L. J. Page, 1996), 9–10.
4. Jennifer Johnson, “Women’s Auxiliary: Unsung Heroes of the Battle of Bull’s Run,” Flint Journal, Jan. 11, 1987.
5. According to author Stephen Franklin,