 |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
 
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Biography: Barbara Jacobs Haber
Barbara Jacobs Haber was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1938. With affection, she describes her mother's family of eight as a "very poor, unassimilated, tight-knit, traditional Jewish family." Following her mother's untimely death, her family moved to Long Island. After a few rebellious incidents in high school, she became involved in peace and civil rights issues in college. She escaped the suburbs by attending Brandeis University on an art scholarship from 1956 to 1960. After hearing Brandeis graduate Michael Walzer speak about the Greensboro sit-ins, she helped start an organization at the university called Emergency Public Integration Committee. She was active in Congress of Racial Equality and attended the founding convention of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, called by long-time civil rights activist Ella Baker. In June 1962, she moved to New York and began her long association with Al Haber, her future husband, and Students for a Democratic Society, attending the historic Port Huron conference. Barbara Haber was involved with the early women's liberation movement and moved to Berkeley where she practices psychotherapy with an emphasis on art therapy.
How to Cite This Page |
||||||||||||||||||||||
Twitter
Flickr
YouTube
Facebook