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Barbara Jacobs Haber

b. 1938

by JWA Staff
Our work to expand the Encyclopedia is ongoing. We are providing this brief biography for Barbara Jacobs Haber until we are able to commission a full entry.

Civil rights activist and psychologist Barbara Jacobs Haber in the 1960s.

Courtesy of Barbara Haber.

Barbara Jacobs Haber focused her civil rights activism on sit-ins and desegregating restaurants and bars. Haber attended Brandeis University on an arts scholarship, getting a bachelor’s degree in 1960 and continuing there into graduate school. She became active in the Congress of Racial Equality while a student, attended the founding convention of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and organized a group at the university called the Emergency Public Integration Committee. After dropping out of graduate school and returning home to Baltimore, she participated in sit-ins with Baltimore CORE. She later became involved with the early women’s movement and moved to Berkeley to train as a therapist. She practices psychotherapy with an emphasis on art therapy.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Barbara Jacobs Haber." (Viewed on March 18, 2024) <http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/haber-barbara>.