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.