Child of the Sit-Downs_ The Revolutionary Life of Genora Dollinger - Carlton Jackson [137]
Three Rivers, Michigan, 3, 4
Till, Emmet, 101
Toledo, Ohio, 15, 35
Trager, Eda, 44
Trager, Frank, 32
Trager, Vicky, 44
Trans World Airlines (TWA), 139
Travis, Helen, 105
Travis, Robert (Bob), 30, 34, 35, 39, 105, 131, 142, 172n27, 174–75n83
Trickle-down prosperity, 40–41
Tripoli, Libya, 139
Trotsky, Leon, 13, 14, 41, 49, 85, 126; rescued reputation of, 147
Trotskyism, 5, 44, 48, 54, 63, 70, 73, 82, 90, 91, 107, 124–26, 147, 158, 183n39; and fight with Walter Reuther, 88–89; and SWP, 89
A Troublemaker’s Handbook: How to Fight Back Where You Work—and Win, 150
Trucks Act (Michigan), 81, 82
Trudeau Sanitarium, 45
Truman, Harry, 66, 80
“Tuxedo Unionism,” 104, 129, 135, 148
“UAW Revolutions in California,” 148
UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles), 118
Unemployed Assistance Board (England), 27
Unemployed Workers’ Union, Number Twelve, 46
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), 9, 123, 147
Union Square (New York), 43
Unitarian Church (Flint), 3, 7, 99
United Automobile Workers (UAW), 2, 13, 14, 17, 21, 28, 30, 34–35, 41, 45, 47, 50, 58, 62, 66–68, 70, 72–73, 75, 84, 96–97, 104–5, 112, 118, 128, 130–31, 133, 135, 140, 142, 145, 148–49, 161, 174–75n83; contract, 37–38; infighting, 88; and Plant Four, 32; Women’s Department in, 157
United Distillery Workers of America, 44
United Labor Congress, 44
United May Day Committee (1937), 43
United States, 43, 55, 77, 90, 96, 108, 124–28, 137, 139, 150; and growing involvement with Vietnam, 102–3; Labor Party in, 136
United States Army, 75, 103
University of Michigan, 8, 26, 120; “teach-in,” 103–4
Unterweger, Peter, 133
Van Zandt, Roscoe, 37
Vassar College, 44
VE Day (Victory in Europe), 65
Vega, Art, 68, 70
Vietnam, 92, 103, 106, 112, 123, 132, 139
Villafuerte, Maria, 160
Volkogonov, Dmitri, 147
Wall Street, 44, 86
Walker, Coburn S., 94
Walker, Sybil “Teeter,” 23, 28, 129
Walter, Robert, 154
Walter, Verena, 154
Ward, Lester Frank, 40
Wardlow, Bill, 62
Warren, Alfred, 140
Washington, D.C., 47, 99, 103, 138, 146
Watergate, 125
Watts (Los Angeles), 107, 111
Waxman, Henry, 139
Wayne State University, 112, 188n15
Weixel, Lola, 55
“We Shall Not Be Moved,” 34
West, Kenneth B., 180n40
Western Hemisphere, 112, 113,
Wetherald, Charles, 42
White Shirt Day, 75, 161
Whitman, Walt, 104
Wilcox, Genora (Genora’s Aunt), 4
Wildcat strikes, 62, 63
Wilderspin, Charles, 94
Wilkinson, Ellen (“Red Ellen”), 26–27
Williams, Calvin (Edward Hall), 98
Williams, Kempton, 30
Williams, Robert, 99–101
Winchester, H., 12
Winton Act, 188n6
Wirin, Rissman, and Posner Law Firm (Los Angeles), 107
With Babies and Banners, 129–30, 159; Oscar nomination, 131
Wolcott, Thomas, 15
Wolfe, E., 160
“Woman’s Day,” 35, 36
Women for Peace, 103
“Women in Auto Organize,” 38
Women Today, 38, 44
Women’s Auxiliary, 18, 22, 27, 38, 39, 42, 142, 145, 172–73n37
Women’s Coalition (Flint), 154
Women’s Emergency Brigade (EB) 38, 39, 41, 45, 50, 93, 117, 119, 128–31, 141, 142, 145, 156–57, 159, 174–75n83; description of, 24–25; duties of EBs, 26; fighting GM propaganda, 28; formation of, 23; “hold the line,” 27, 44; impact of on Flint women, 25; and Plant Four, 33; and Plant Nine, 33; qualifications for, 24; sacrifices, 25; speaker’s bureau, 26
Women’s Film Cooperative, 130
Women’s March (New York), 121
Women’s Socialist Guard, 43, 44
Women’s Status Bill, 123
Women’s Studies Association (Lansing), 151
Women’s Studies Department, University of Michigan, 120
Women’s Trade Union League (WTUL), 1
Woodcock, Leonard, 128, 129, 130
Woolworth Stores, 38, 98
Workers Party (Max Schactman), 63
Works Progress Administration (WPA), 46, 47, 77
World War I, 48
World War II, 54–55, 65, 68, 76, 78, 84, 91, 119, 125, 148, 153, 157, 158
Wright, Margaret, 55
Yeghissian, Patricia, 120, 174–75n83
Yesterday’s Witness, 128
Yorkville Center (New York City), 44
Young People’s Socialist League (YPSL), 13, 43
Ypsilanti, Michigan, 8
Yugoslavia, 89
Zinn, Howard, 161
Zoroaster, 12
Zwirmer, Harold, 64