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11. Berta Green to Sam Duncan, Jan. 19, 1961, Dollinger Collection, box 5, folder 8, Reuther Library.
12. Ibid.
13. Genora Dollinger, notes, n.d., Dollinger Collection, box 5, folder 8, Reuther Library.
14. Genora Dollinger, “The Iron Curtain of Dixie,” unpublished writing, ca. 1962, Dollinger Collection, box 4, folder 24, Reuther Library.
15. Genora Dollinger, “To Whom It May Concern,” Oct. 22, 1963, Dollinger Collection, box 4, folder 49, Reuther Library.
16. See Larry Jones, “Hall of Fame for Genora Dollinger,” in The UAW Local 659 Searchlight, Sept. 23, 1994.
17. Sol Dollinger, “Formative Years,” 43.
18. Ibid., 44.
19. Sol Dollinger, interview with the author, Nov. 1, 1997.
20. Sol Dollinger, “Formative Years,” 45.
21. Sol Dollinger, interview with the author, Nov. 1, 1997.
22. O’Nan, “Role of Women,” 176.
23. David Herreshoff, “On Genora,” unpublished writing, Apr. 23, 1965, Dollinger Collection, box 4, Reuther Library.
24. Sol said later that the “average life of a fund raiser . . . was five years.” He stayed with the Technion Society of America for nineteen years. Although no specific records were ever reported, he estimated that altogether he raised between forty-five and fifty million dollars.
25. Genora to Sol, n.d., Dollinger Collection, box 1, folder 1, Reuther Library.
26. Genora to Helen Travis, Apr. 21, 1966, Dollinger Collection, box 1, folder 39, Reuther Library.
27. Ernest Mazey to Eason Monroe, Apr. 4, 1966, Dollinger Collection, box 1, folder 39, Reuther Library. As if to underscore these remarks, just a few weeks later Genora received a grateful letter from Cary T. Cook, thanking her for helping him to obtain his freedom from jail.
28. Genora Dollinger, “The Joint (Mr. & Mrs.) Membership and the Important Role of Women,” ACLU pamphlet, n.d., Dollinger Collection, box 4, folder 49, Reuther Library.
29. Ernest Mazey to Genora and Sol, Dec. 24, 1966, Dollinger Collection, box 4, folder 49, Reuther Library.
30. Ed Galligan to Genora, Apr. 21, 1966, Dollinger Collection, box 2, folder 21, Reuther Library.
31. Walter Bergman to Genora, June 20, 1966. Dollinger Collection, box 2, folders 6–7, Reuther Library.
32. Sol to Genora, May 15, 1966. Dollinger Collection, box 1, folders 31–32, Reuther Library.
33. Ibid., May 18, 1966, Dollinger Collection, Reuther Library.
34. Ibid., May 17, 1966, Dollinger Collection, Reuther Library.
35. Ibid., June 2, 1966, Dollinger Collection, Reuther Library.
36. Ibid., May 23, 1966, Dollinger Collection, Reuther Library.
37. Larry Jones to Sol and Genora, Sept. 18, 1967, Dollinger Collection, Los Angeles.
38. Larry Jones to Genora, Sept. 18, 1967, Dollinger Collection, Los Angeles.
39. Ibid., Oct. 10, 1967, Dollinger Collection, Los Angeles.
40. Genora to “Ray,” Sept. 7, 1970, Dollinger Collection, box 2, folder 5, Reuther Library.
41. Sol Dollinger, “Formative Years,” 45.
42. Sol describes one meeting of the Peace and Freedom organization. Black Panthers came to the door where the meeting was in progress but would not enter until the whites present emptied their pockets of change and cigarettes. An attendee protested that this was not the way to enter into an accommodating relationship. Sol recorded that the “parlor pink whites voted her down.”
43. Sol Dollinger to the author, Nov. 30, 1997.
44. Sol Dollinger, e-mail to the author, July 9, 2000.
45. Sol Dollinger, “Formative Years,” 45.
46. Sol Dollinger, e-mail to the author, June 18, 1999.
47. Genora to Sol, Dec. 7, 1968, Dollinger Collection, box 1, folder 33, Reuther Library.
48. Stanyo Kaminski to Genora, May 21, 1968, Dollinger Collection, Los Angeles.
49. Sol Dollinger to the author, Mar. 23, 1998.
50. Sol Dollinger, e-mail to the author, June 18, 1999.
51. Genora to (sister?) Barbara, Apr. 26, 1968, Dollinger Collection, Los Angeles.
52. Sol Dollinger, interview with the author, Nov. 1, 1997.
53. Studs Terkel, Coming of Age (New York: New York Press, 1997), 519.
54. Sol Dollinger, interview with the author, Nov. 1, 1997.
55. Ronald Dollinger to Genora [ca. 19701], Dollinger