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Biography: Miriam Cohen Glickman
Miriam Cohen was born in Indiana in 1942, the eldest daughter in a family of eight. Her father has edited The National Jewish Post and Opinion for over fifty years. She grew up in an observant home with a strong Jewish identity. While in high school, she participated in modest protests against the treatment of black students there. In the summer of 1961, after her sophomore year at Brandeis University, she toured the South, visiting several civil rights projects with the help of her father's journalist colleagues. By the end of her time at Brandeis, she knew that she wanted to be a civil rights worker and applied to Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). In the summer of 1963, she worked in the Albany, Georgia movement, the first attempt to attack all forms of racial domination in one location and to involve large numbers of community people in nonviolent direct action. She spent a week in jail on a hunger strike. Later that year, she returned to Meridian, Mississippi, to work with the "mock vote" project, directed by Matteo Suarez. Early in 1964, she spent six months working in Washington, DC conducting research for SNCC. She worked in Columbus, Mississippi from the end of Freedom Summer until February 1965. When controversies over white SNCC workers came to a head, she moved to New York's Lower East Side near a group of ex-SNCC workers. After a brief stint working for a union, she went to graduate school at Bank Street College of Education and began a long teaching career. Glickman and her husband have raised two children. She now lives with her family in California and is involved in local political issues.
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