Biography
Jane Alpert was a New York radical — and later a radical-feminist writer — who took part in a 1969 campaign that bombed eight government and corporate buildings in New York City, helping plan the targets and logistics with her partner Sam Melville. Arrested in November 1969 after other members of the group were caught planting dynamite, she pleaded guilty to conspiracy but jumped bail about a month before her 1970 sentencing and spent roughly four and a half years underground, where she wrote the influential feminist essay "Mother Right." She surrendered in November 1974 and was sentenced to 27 months in prison for the conspiracy; in October 1977 she received an additional four months for contempt of court after refusing to testify at the 1975 trial of a co-defendant. She later recounted her life in the memoir "Growing Up Underground."
