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56. Ibid., Sept. 27, 1971, Dollinger Collection, Reuther Library.
57. Tape recording made for Sol and Ron Dollinger at Genora’s “homecoming” party in Detroit, fall 1970, Dollinger Collection, Los Angeles.
58. Ibid.
7. “It Makes My Heart Sing”
1. Los Angeles High School Community Advisory Council publication, Nov. 7, 1977, Dollinger Collection, box 4, folder 42, Reuther Library.
2. Genora Dollinger, pamphlet, ca. 1970, Dollinger Collection, box 3, folder 26, Reuther Library.
3. Ibid.
4. Agenda, People’s Lobby Newsletter 71, vol. 2, Jan. 1971, Dollinger Collection, box 4, folder 44, Reuther Library.
5. Genora Dollinger in Los Angeles Highlights (newsletter), Oct. 18, 1971, Dollinger Collection, box 4, folder 44, Reuther Library.
6. Ibid. The teachers wanted collective bargaining rights. The city agreed, but a group known as the Professional Educators/Los Angeles brought a lawsuit in accordance with the Winton Act that prohibited any collective bargaining. It was not until 1976 that the teachers won full rights of bargaining. Raymond Butler, e-mail to the author, July 18, 2000.
7. Genora Dollinger, speech to the Organization of American Historians (OAH), Apr. 1970, Dollinger Collection, box 3, folder 34, Reuther Library.
8. Genora Dollinger, speech to “Pioneers Reunion,” UAW Local 659, Aug. 2, 1987, Dollinger Collection, box 3, folder 32, Reuther Library.
9. Genora to Larry Jones, May 17, 1974, Dollinger Collection, box 2, folders 33–36, Reuther Library.
10. Foner, Women and the American Labor Movement, 1.
11. Gluck, Rosie the Riveter, 7, 8.
12. Foner, Women and the American Labor Movement, 306, 309.
13. Karen Anderson, Wartime Women: Sex Roles, Family Relations, and the Status of Women during World War II (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1981), 174.
14. Genora Dollinger, untitled writing, Feb. 1974, Dollinger Collection, box 2, folder 33, Reuther Library.
15. On the subject of interviews, Genora knew that the Skeels’s 1960 interview of her was stored in the archives at Wayne State University. She learned that the interview was not available to students except under certain circumstances. Genora asked why, wanting the widest coverage possible of what she had said to Skeels. Representing the archives, Philip Mason wrote back to Genora that the interview had to be restricted because of some of the “libelous” material in it. The Skeels interview, he said, was going to be used for “scholarly” purposes only, with no “sensationalism.” Genora scoffed at such “timidity,” but there was nothing she could do about it. Genora to Philip Mason, Apr. 23, 1972; and Philip Mason to Genora, Apr. 27, 1972, Dollinger Collection, box 2, Reuther Library.
16. Genora to Larry Jones, May 17, 1974, Dollinger Collection, box 2, folders 33–36, Reuther Library.
17. Genora to Julius and Phyllis Jacobson, May 30, 1993, Dollinger Collection, box 2, Reuther Library.
18. Genora to Pauline and Bernie Goodman, Aug. 16, 1977, Dollinger Collection, box 2, folders 23–24, Reuther Library.
19. Joe Rosenthal to Genora, June 15, 1973, Dollinger Collection, box 2, folder 49, Reuther Library. Apparently, Rosenthal was correct in his theory. By 1999, only 26 percent of women surveyed said that they liked the word “feminism.” Two years later, in 2001, the percentage rate had dropped by one point. See Ariel Levy, Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture (New York: Free Press, 2005), 86.
20. Sheila McCoy, e-mail to the author, Nov. 26, 1999.
21. Patricia Ireland, What Women Want (New York: Penguin, 1996), 70. Seven years, however, was the normal waiting time for states to decide constitutional amendments.
22. Genora Dollinger, “The Spirit of 1976 and 1937,” Searchlight, Feb. 5, 1976, 5.
23. Annelise Orleck, Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900–1965 (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1995), 303.
24. Marcia Cohen, The Sisterhood: The Inside Story of the Woman’s Movement and the Leaders Who Made It Happen (New York: