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Child of the Sit-Downs_ The Revolutionary Life of Genora Dollinger - Carlton Jackson [131]

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and Robin D. G. Kelley, eds. Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor’s Last Century. Boston: Beacon Press, 2001.

Newspapers

The American Socialist

Bowling Green Daily News

Detroit Evening News

Detroit Free Press

Flint Journal

In These Our Times

Los Angeles Times

The Militant

New York Times

Park City (Ky.) Daily News

Searchlight (UAW Local 659)

Unpublished Sources

Diehl-Taylor, Christiane. “Partners in the Struggle: The Role of Women’s Auxiliaries and Brigades in the 1934 Minneapolis Truck Drivers Strikes and the 1936/37 Flint General Motors Sit-Down Strike.” Research paper, University of Minnesota, 1990.

Hassett, Janice. “Never Again Just a Woman: Women of the Auxiliary and Emergency Brigade in the General Motors Sit-Down Strike of 1937.” Senior thesis, Mills College, 1994.

Yeghissian, Patricia. “Women’s Emergency Brigade: Flint Sit-Down Strike of 1936–37.” Senior honors thesis, University of Michigan, 1974.

Index


Absent Without Leave (AWOL), 75, 83

Acapulco, Mexico, 101, 102

Adult Educational Program, Los Angeles, 109

Addes, George F., 145

Adirondacks, 45

African Americans, 62, 98, 107, 129, 137, 163

Aisle Way caucus, 59, 66

Albert Champion (AC) Factory, 3, 5

Albro, Barbara (Genora’s sister), 5, 41, 52, 53, 83

Albro, Beatrice (Genora’s sister), 5, 41, 69, 83

Albro, Jarvis (Genora’s brother), 5, 20, 83

Albro, Jarvis (Genora’s grandfather), 3

Albro, Lora (Genora’s mother), 3, 5, 6, 8, 11, 41, 60, 61, 118, 131, 137; on attack on Genora and Sol, 69–70; her death, 74

Albro, Raymond, (Genora’s father), 3, 4, 23; death of, 82, 83; reaction to Genora’s marriage, 8, 54; relationship with family, 5, 6, 41, 42, 61, 83, 118, 156, 177n20

Allende, Salvador, 112, 113

Alzheimer disease, 150

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 100, 102–7, 109, 163

“American” English, 138

American Federation of Labor, 9, 32, 93

American Guardian, 10

American Revolution, 4, 87

The American Socialist, 70, 91

American Socialist Club (ASC), 91, 93

Ameringer, Oscar, 10, 169n29

Amsterdam, 124, 137

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 26; and Labor History Project, 130

Anthony, Susan B., 131

Antioch Baptist Church (Flint), 80

The Appeal to Reason, 49

Arnow, Harriett, 61

Ash, Vida, 64

Attorney General, U.S., 80

Baggett, Viola, 25

Bahaism, 12

Barbour, Al, 103

Barringer, John, 36

Barrow, Clyde, 15

Battle of Bull’s Run, 20, 25, 35, 120; significance of, 21, 22, 24, 30, 34, 119, 141, 172n27

The Battle of the Running Bulls, 20

Bauman, Winifred (Winnie), 52

Beard, Charles, 85

Becker, Frieda, 112, 113

Becker, Harry, 112

Bedayn, Janice Hassett, 154

Bellamy, Edward, 169n29

Bellamy, “Sister,” 64

Bergman, Walter, 16, 27, 106

Besson, Nellie, 23, 129, 134, 140

Bieber, Owen, 140, 149; meeting Genora, 146

Bishop, Merlin, 30

Black Panthers, 109

“Black Tuesday,” 15

Bloom, Melvyn, 154

Bolshevism, 41, 56

Bowling Green, Ohio, 7

Bradley, Thomas, 139

Braverman, Harry, 92

Briggs Manufacturing, 58, 61, 63–68, 70, 72, 74, 85, 93, 157; anti-labor views of, 59; court opinion against, 72

Britannica Company, 94, 104

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 128

Brooke, Edward W., 123

Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 9

Buddha, 12

Budd Wheel, 57, 60, 72

Buick, 36, 47, 82

Burkharts Textile Firm, 72

Bush, George H. W., 139

Butler, Patricia, 154

Butler, Raymond, 188n6

Café Metropole, 45

California, 94, 95, 105, 106, 111, 112, 114, 153, 160; Advisory councils of, 109, 116

Camden Women’s Auxiliary (New Jersey), 45

Canada, 43

Cannon, James P., 49, 50, 86, 89, 161

Capitalism, 13, 40, 48, 65, 72, 73, 76, 121

Carney, William, 33

Castro, Fidel, 92, 100

Central America, 139

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 78, 95, 113

Centrist characteristics of voters, 78

Chafe, William H., 67

Chaplin, Charlie, 23

Chapman, Inez, 23

Chevrolet, 31, 37, 94, 149; and women workers, 84

Chevrolet Avenue (Flint), 16, 37

Chevrolet Gear and Axle, 5

Chicago, Illinois, 91, 98

Children’s Picket Line, 142

Chile, 112

China, 86, 89, 137

Christensen, Bert, 75

Chrysler Motor Company, 58, 59

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