Diana Oughton

rdf:langString Diana Oughton

rdf:langString Diana Oughton

rdf:langString Diana Oughton

rdf:langString New York City, New York, U.S.

rdf:langString Dwight, Illinois U.S.

rdf:langString Bryn Mawr College, B.A. University of Michigan, M.A.

rdf:langString Oughton in 1963

rdf:langString Student activist

rdf:langString Member of Students for a Democratic Society

rdf:langString Member of Weather Underground

rdf:langString Teacher at the Children's Community School in Ann Arbor, Michigan

rdf:langString Diana Oughton (January 26, 1942 – March 6, 1970) was an American member of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) Michigan Chapter and later, a member of the 1960s radical group Weather Underground. Oughton received her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College. After graduation, Oughton went to Guatemala with the American Friends Service Committee program to teach the young and older Native Americans. After returning to the U.S, she worked at the Children's Community School in Ann Arbor, Michigan while getting her master's degree at the University of Michigan. She became active in SDS, eventually becoming a full-time organizer and member of the Jesse James Gang. With the split of SDS in 1969, she joined Weather Underground. Oughton died in the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion in Greenwich Village when a nail bomb she was constructing with Terry Robbins detonated. The bomb was to be used that evening at a dance for noncommissioned officers and their dates at the Fort Dix, New Jersey Army base, to "bring the [Vietnam] war home".