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25. Nancy A. Naples, Grass Roots Warriors, 141.
26. Nancy Gabin, “Time Out of Mind: The UAW’s Response to Female Labor Laws and Mandatory Overtime in the 1960s,” in Work Engendered: Toward a New History of American Labor, ed. Ava Barton (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press, 1993), 372.
27. Dorothy Sue Cobble, Dishing It Out: Waitresses and Their Unions in the Twentieth Century (Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1991), 11.
28. Blanche Wiesen Cook, Women and Support Networks: Women Against Economic and Social Repression: The Two-Front Challenge (New York: Out and Out Books, 1979), 9.
29. Daniel Horowitz, Betty Friedan and the Making of The Feminine Mystique: The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism (Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1998), 127. The ERA’s major objectives were equal pay, government-sponsored daycare centers, an end to lynching and racial discrimination, national health insurance, leadership for women in unions, and respectful representation of women in the media. For additional discussions of the pros and cons of the ERA, see Kathleen A. Laughlin, Women’s Work and Public Policy: A History of the Women’s Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor, 1945–1970 (Boston: Northeastern Univ. Press, 2000), 35–37.
30. Rupp and Taylor, Survival in the Doldrums, 144.
31. Genora to Senator Edward W. Brooke, July 1, 1969, Dollinger Collection, box 4, folder 42, Reuther Library.
32. Genora to Senator Edward Kennedy, July 2, 1969; also, letter to “Ray,” July 7, 1970, Dollinger Collection, box 4, folder 42, Reuther Library.
33. Genora to Ron Dollinger, June 16, 1971, Dollinger Collection, Los Angeles.
34. Ibid., July 6, 1971, Dollinger Collection, Los Angeles.
35. Sol Dollinger, interview with the author, Oct. 19, 1997.
36. Sol Dollinger, “Franco and Beyond,” unpublished paper, Dollinger Collection, Los Angeles, 4.
37. On February 6, 1976, Genora used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain her files from the FBI, only to be told that the FBI had received 17,469 requests, with a present backlog of 6,350. By January 11, 1977, Genora had not received a report from the federal agency. She did some quick math: “Since according to this information, you completed approximately eleven thousand requests . . . why is it that I have not received the information in my case over a year after my original request” when their backlog was under 10,0001 Finally, on May 16, 1977, the FBI wrote to her, “We have now searched our records and find numerous references to you in which you were not the subject of the investigation.” Her disdain for the FBI and the CIA continued.
38. Sol Dollinger, “Franco and Beyond,” 5.
39. Sol Dollinger, e-mail to the author, July 1, 2000; Sol Dollinger, interview with the author, Oct. 31, 1997.
40. Sol Dollinger, interview with the author, Oct. 31, 1997.
41. Genora to Ronald Dollinger, July 19, 1973, Dollinger Collection, Los Angeles.
42. This and other references to Genora and Sol’s 1977 trip to Europe are, unless otherwise noted, from Genora’s diary entries between June and July 1977, Dollinger Collection, Los Angeles.
43. Sol Dollinger, interview with the author, Oct. 31, 1997.
44. Sol Dollinger and Genora Dollinger, Not Automatic: Women and the Left in the Forging of the Auto Workers’ Union (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000), 63. This book was compiled after Genora’s death, and Sol added Genora’s byline as a loving tribute to his wife of more than a half-century. Reviewer Collete A. Hyman, said, “Two thirds of the book focuses far more on left-wing politics specifically on the battles among male politicos—than on women.” Nevertheless, Sol includes “class-conscious militants,” one of whom was Genora, “who played an ‘inspiring, complex and intrepid role’ in the labor movement.” See Colette A. Hyman, “Heroines and Homemakers: Views from Across the Disciplines,” in National Women’s Studies Association Journal 13:3 (2001): 189–98, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/nwsa_journal/ v013.3hyman.html
45. Stephen Peet to Genora, Nov. 13, 1975, Dollinger Collection,