Barbara Deming Chronology of Actions

1917 - Born in New York City

1940's - Film analyst for Library of Congress. Writing film criticism and her own fictional works.

1950's - Writing short stories and poetry. Begins reading Gandhi. selected poems

1960 - Visits cuba and talks with Castro; meets with Committee for Nonviolent Action; joins demonstration against polaris submarines

1961 - Walks with the San Francisco to Moscow walk for peace; attends International Peace Brigade conference in Europe; joins fast calling for abolition of CIA.

1962 - First arrest for civil disobedience at the Atomic Energy Commission building on Hudson Street in New York City to protest atomic bomb tests; publicly advocates unilateral disarmament; joins Nashville to DC bi-racial walk for peace. Southern Peace Walk: Two issues or one?

1963 - Attends HUAC hearings; jailed in anti-racism protest; jailed again during peace and freedom walk.

1964 - Jailed in Albany, Georgia during Quebec-Guantanamo walk for peace and freedom. Prison Notes

1965 - 67 - Travels to North and South Vietnam to protest war; jailed during Pentagon Action. We Are All Part of One Another

1968 - 70 - Travels with group to Resurrection City and lives there for three weeks

1971 - Becomes increasingly involved in the Women's Movement. On Anger

1973 - Publicly comes out as a lesbian.

1974 - Discussions with Bradford Lyttle about homosexuality. The Purpose of Sexuality

1975 - Writing and speaking about the connections between feminism and nonviolence. To Fear Jane Alpert is to Fear Ourselves

1977 - Studying feminist scholars and speaking publicly. Remembering Who We Are

1980's - Lives in women only communities.

1983 - Arrested for the last time at the Seneca Falls Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice, a separatist experimental community established to protest cruise missile deployment from the Seneca Army Depot. Started in sympathy with the Greenham Commons Women in England. Many other Encampments begun world-wide. Statement of the Waterloo 54

1984 - Dies in women's community in Florida of ovarian cancer.