Barbara Deming

Barbara Deming (1917 - 1984) was an American feminist and advocate of nonviolent social change. Barbara Deming was born in New York. She attended a Friends (Quaker) school up through her high school years. Deming directed plays, taught dramatic literature and wrote and published fiction and non-fiction works. On a trip to India, she began reading Gandhi, and became committed to a non-violent struggle, with her main cause being Women's Rights. She later became a journalist, and was active in many demonstrations and marches over issues of peace and civil rights. She was a member of a group that went to Hanoi during the Vietnam War, and was jailed many times for non-violent protest. At sixteen, she had fallen in love with a woman her...