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though distorted image of the whole class.” Trade unions, he believed, had been “deceived by false education, poisoned by vicious propaganda, and chained to the wheel of capitalist propaganda.” See Farrell Dobbs, Trade Union Problems (New York: Pioneer Publishing, n.d. [1940?]), quoted in U.S. Labor in the Twentieth Century: Studies in Working-Class Struggles and Insurgency, ed. John H. Hinshaw and Paul Le Blanc (Amherst, N.Y.: Humanity Books, 2001), 156–57. A dated but still useful book on trade unions, especially their relationship to women workers, is Alice Henry, The Trade Union Woman (New York: Burt Franklin, 1915).

41. Donald Drew Egbert et al., eds., Socialism and American Life, vol. 2 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press, 1952), 59–60, 154–55.

42. Ibid., 10.

43. Sol Dollinger, e-mail to the author, Jan. 29, 2000. C. L. R. James joined the SWP minority with a dim view of Cannon. He wrote to Martin Glaberman that “to this day [1962] he [Cannon] has been totally unable to adapt Marxism to the American scene. And to the particular age in which we live.” Glaberman, Marxism, 69. For other views of the Cannonites, see Egbert and Persons, Socialism, 221, 288.

44. Alexander, International Trotskyism, 836.

45. FBI report on Sol Dollinger, ca. 1958, Dollinger Collection, box 5, folders 11–15, Reuther Library.

46. Sol Dollinger, e-mail to the author, June 8, 2000. Sol stated positively that this was not the first such incident with the FBI, nor the last.

47. FBI report on Genora Dollinger, ca. 1958, Dollinger Collection, box 5, folders 11–15, Reuther Library.

48. For additional descriptions of this trend, see Warren Lerner, A History of Socialism and Communism in Modern Times: Theorists, Activists, and Humanists, 2d ed. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1994), 214.

49. FBI report on Genora Dollinger, ca. 1958, Dollinger Collection, box 5, folders 11–15, Reuther Library.

50. Ibid.

51. Sol Dollinger to the author, Nov. 30, 1997.

52. Genora to Jack Johnson, Apr. 23, 1958, Dollinger Collection, Los Angeles.

53. Genora to Charles Wilderspin, July 4, 1958, Dollinger Collection, Los Angeles.

54. Sol Dollinger, e-mail to the author, June 8, 2000.

55. FBI report on Sol Dollinger, Nov. 22, 1954, Dollinger Collection, box 5, folders 11–15, Reuther Library.

56. Ibid., ca. winter 1956, Dollinger Collection, Reuther Library.

57. Ibid., ca. summer 1957, Dollinger Collection, Reuther Library.

58. Ibid., May 12, 1958, Dollinger Collection, Reuther Library.

59. Sol Dollinger, “Festival Gaiety,” 7.

60. Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (New York: Norton, 1963), 36.

6. California Girl

1. Sarah Evans, Personal Politics: The Roots of Women’s Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left (New York: Knopf, 1979), 15.

2. Kathleen O’Nan, “The Role of Women, and of Radicals in the First Sit-Down Strikes: An Interview with Genora Dollinger,” in U.S. Labor in the Twentieth Century: Studies in Working-Class Struggles and Insurgency, ed. John H. Hinshaw and Paul Le Blanc, 163.

3. Flint NAACP report, Dec. 4, 1959, Dollinger Collection, Los Angeles.

4. Flint NAACP, undated newsletter, Dollinger Collection, Los Angeles.

5. Ibid.

6. Sol Dollinger, “Formative Years,” 7.

7. Conrad J. Lynn, Monroe, North Carolina . . . Turning Point in American History, pamphlet, 1962, Labadie Collection, University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor, 1–27. See also Lynn, There Is a Fountain: The Autobiography of Conrad Lynn (Brooklyn, N.Y.: Lawrence Hill Books, 1993), 141–55; Truman Nelson, People with Strength: The Story of Monroe, N.C. (Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 1962), 1–37. The most brilliant book written about Monroe during this time is Timothy B. Tyson, Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1999).

8. Nelson, People with Strength, 13.

9. Berta Green to Sam Duncan, of Flint, Michigan, Jan. 19, 1961, Dollinger Collection, box 5, folder 8, Reuther Library.

10. Berta Green to Genora, Jan. 19, 1961, Dollinger Collection, box 5, folder 8, Reuther Library.