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Kraus with setting up a “chiseling committee” to “obtain food from sympathetic grocers . . . and impor[t] Max Gazan” to cook at the strike kitchen. He also gives Dorothy credit for staging the play about the sit-downs, The Strike Marches On, which she claimed she helped to write. Even today there are strong supporters of Dorothy in the sit-downs as opposed to Genora. It is quite possible for partisans of either group to become downright emotional in their quest to identify the most important woman in Flint during the sit-downs.

6. With her trepidations about public speaking, she was anticipating Gloria Steinem, who said that “women speakers are . . . likely to get some version of ‘You have a good point, but you’re not making it effectively,’ or ‘Your style is too aggressive/weak/loud/quiet.’ It is with such criticism . . . that [men] often dismiss the serious message of a female colleague.” See Gloria Steinem, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellion, 2d ed. (New York: Henry Holt, 1995), 200.

7. Genora Dollinger, diary entry, Apr. 28, 1937, Dollinger Collection, Los Angeles.

8. Ibid., May 1, 1937, Dollinger Collection, Los Angeles.

9. Sol Dollinger, “Formative Years,” 27.

10. Genora Dollinger, diary entry, May 3, 1937, Dollinger Collection, Los Angeles.

11. Ibid., May 4, 1937, Dollinger Collection, Los Angeles.

12. Ibid., May 11, 1937, Dollinger Collection, Los Angeles.

13. Ibid., May 15–17, 1937, Dollinger Collection, Los Angeles.

14. Skeels interview, 41.

15. Sol Dollinger, “Formative Years,” 39.

16. Gluck interview, 93.

17. Skeels interview, 52.

18. Sol Dollinger to the author, June 28, 1999.

19. Jack Palmer, “His Priceless Gift to 659: Kermit Johnson, 1911–1967,” in Searchlight, Feb. 5, 1975, 2.

20. Another person who was foreclosed on was Raymond Albro. He had gone “up to his eyeballs” in mortgages on his photographic studios and a grapefruit orchard he wanted to start in Texas. Genora said that he threatened suicide, he was so distraught. In the last years of his life, he worked as a janitor at Buick. Sol Dollinger, “Festival Gaiety,” 2, Dollinger Collection, Los Angeles.

21. Rosenthal, Striking Flint, 29.

22. Palmer, “Kermit Johnson,” 4.

23. Sue Connolly, remarks on the occasion of Genora Johnson Dollinger’s induction into the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame, Oct. 29, 1994, Dollinger Collection, box 4, folder 39, Reuther Library.

24. James R. Green, The World of the Worker: Labor in Twentieth-Century America (New York: Hill and Wang, 1980), 96.

25. Linda Gordon, Pitied but Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare, 1890–1935 (New York: Free Press, 1994), 234.

26. Martin Glaberman, ed., Marxism for Our Times: C. L. R. James on Revolutionary Organization (Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi, 1999), 11–12. See also Martin Glaberman, Wartime Strikes: The Struggle Against the No-Strike Pledge in the UAW During World War II (Detroit: Bewick Editions, 1980), 73–74.

27. Robert A. Alexander, International Trotskyism 1929–1985: A Documented Analysis of the Movement (Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 1991), 27.

28. A copy of this declaration by Kermit and Genora Johnson is in the Dollinger Collection, Los Angeles.

29. Bruce Sloan to George Clarke, Dollinger Collection, Los Angeles.

30. Alexander, International Trotskyism, 1.

31. Ibid., 762.

32. Jack Barnes, James P. Cannon: A Political Tribute (New York: Path-finder, 1981), 5.

33. Constance Ashton Myers, The Prophet’s Army: Trotskyists in America, 1928–1941 (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1977), 145.

34. Ibid., 14.

35. George Breitman, “The Liberating Influence of the Transitional Program,” in Revolutionary Traditions of American Trotskyism (New York: Fourth International Tendency, 1988), 25.

36. Barnes. James P. Cannon, 9.

37. Sol Dollinger, “Festival Gaiety,” 3.

38. Riley E. Males to Genora, Dec. 18, 1939, Kraus Collection, folder 2, Reuther Library.

39. A copy of this poem was found in the Dollinger Collection in Los Angeles.

40. Ibid.

41. Kermit ultimately went back to the Johnson family farm in Humboldt, South Dakota, where