1970

No exact date 

Third World Women's Alliance founded.

North American Indian Women's Association created

Grey Panthers founded.

By 1970, there were eight women's liberation groups in Gainesville, Florida (one on campus).  (Please add information from other cities here)

Abortion laws repealed in Hawaii, Alaska, and New York.

Spate of important publications.  Anthologies bring together many articles that had already become classics of the movement.  Robin Morgan, ed., Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings From the Women's Liberation Movement; Sookie Stambler, ed., Women's Liberation: Blueprint for the Future; and Leslie B.Tanner, ed. Voices From Women's Liberation.

Particularly noteworthy, Toni Cade [Bambara], ed., The Black Woman: An Anthology, which "sparked discussions of the links between race, gender and class among women working across social movements" (Springer)

Other major publications included Shumith Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex, Germaine Greer's, Female Eunuch, Kate Millet's Sexual Politics, and Celestine Ware's, Woman Power: The Movement for Women's Liberation.

After meeting the previous year at a feminist conference in a workshop on "women  and their bodies," a group of Boston women put together Women and Their Bodies, a 193-page booklet, published by the New England Free Press.  This is the precurser to Our Bodies, Ourselves.  Source

By 1970, American Medical Association board, Church Women United, YWCA, and Planned Parenthood, have come out in favor of abortion law repeal

Ohio's first conference on the Status of Women; Dayton Women's Liberation goes to protest

January

Week of Women's Liberation speakers in Yellow Springs, Ohio including Antioch Women's Liberation, Marlene Dixon, and Bread and Roses.

Feminists, including members of WITCH, Redstockings, as well as activists from the Gay Liberation Front, Liberation News Service and the Weatherman take over the underground paper, Rat, and produce a "liberated issue"

(23-24) 350 people attend a Midwest women's liberation conference at the University of Kentucky.

February

Dayton Women for Abortion-Law Repeal created.

(27)  First issue of off our backs

March

Aileen Hernandez elected President of NOW

(7)  200 women meet in Wisconsin at the first AFL-CIO state women's conference, takes feminist stands (i.e. pro-ERA).

(8)  International Women's Day rally in New York.

(18)  Ladies Home Journal sit-in by Media Women, NOW, The Feminists, and Redstockings.

April

Notes from the Second Year published

(5)  The Feminists' Resolution ("anti-star"),  Atkinson splits off.

(15) Antiwar march.  In Los Angeles, a women's liberation contingent sports signs such as "No Vietnamese ever called me a dumb broad."  (DDEverywoman).  Dayton, Ohio demonstration organized by women's liberation in cooperation with Black Panthers.

(25)  UAW national convention, resolutions on women's rights, including on abortion, child care, and ERA.

May

National Conference on the Role of Women in Theological Eduction in Boston.

(1)  "Women-Identified-Women" issued by Radicalesbians.

(1-3) Second Congress to Unite Women, New York.  Contingent appears with "lavender menace" t-shirts to counter statement by Betty Friedan

(3) Supreme Court agrees to consider two abortion cases (including Roe v.Wade).

Summer

In collabortion with women's liberation, Dayton, Ohio Planned Parenthood lowers age for dispensing contraceptives to 18 and begins referral service for younger women.

House special subcommittee holds hearings on sex discrimination in education.

June

One year after Stonewall riots, first Gay Pride Week and Homosexual Liberation Day. 20,000 attend.    

San Francisco NOW begins a childcare committee, which becomes a citywide task force (the California Child Care Initiative Committee) to promote free childcare to all city residents.

(7) ACLU conference adopts women's rights plank.

(10-12) Conference on 50th anniversary  of the Women's Bureau.  Announces support of ERA.

(24) Feminists begin Clergy Consultation on Abortion in Dayton, Ohio.

(28) NAACP adopts a women's rights platform.

August

First issue of Dayton Women's Liberation newsletter, appeared monthly for xx years.
 
Liberated issue of the Ladies Home Journal.  $10,000 earned used to set up first New York City Women's Center H&L 255-57

YWCA national convention announces creation of National Women's Resource Center and issues strong feminist statement

Following a series of sit-ins in all-male bars, New York City forbids sex discrimination in public accommodations. 
    
(26) "Don't iron while the strike is hot."  National women's strike on 50th anniversary of women's suffrage.  Called by NOW and taken over by feminist groups of all kinds.  Celebrations, marches and diverse actions around the country (in 90 cities according to the Feminist Chronicles), including Dayton and Cincinnati Ohio; San Pedro, Berkeley, and San Diego, California; Madison and Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Austin, Texas; Rochester, Minnesota (oh, yes, and New York, New York). First demonstration of the new Mouvement de Liberation des Femmes in Paris.

Fall

First women's studies program, San Diego College.

Women's Action Collective formed in Columbus, Ohio, a coalition of women's liberation and radical feminist groups in the city. Many members of WAC were also founders and members of Columbus NOW, also formed in late 1970.

September

Creation of Dayton Abortion Repeal Committee.

(30) Picket of women barred from all-male Gem City Democratic Club (Dayton, Ohio)

October 

(13) Angela Davis captured by the Police.

November

25 women and two men form the Memphis, Tennessee chapter of NOW at the Half and Half Coffee House in Midtown Memphis.

28) Revolutionary Peoples' Constitutional Convention held in Washington DC.  Feminist contingent from Dayton, and?

December

(4) First in a series of sub-regional planning session (Buffalo, Cleveland...) for North American Women's Conference (aka "the Toronto conference").