Biography/History

1941, May 31	Miriam (Mimi) Feingold was born into an Old Left family in New York City.
1960, Fall-1963, Spring	Attended Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania; was a member of Swarthmore Political Action Club (SPAC).
1961, Summer	Involved in the Congress of Racial Equality's (CORE) freedom rides in the South. Arrested and jailed in Jackson, Miss.
1962, Summer	Member of the American Friends' Nashville community action project.
1962, Nov.-1963, July	Active in integration efforts along Maryland's Eastern Shore.
1963, June	Graduated from Swarthmore.
1963, Aug.-1964, Aug.	Active in Louisiana voter registration and community organizing projects of CORE.
1964, Sept.-1965, June	Attended University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate School in history.
1965, Summer	Worked in Louisiana CORE's voter registration program; started to collect documentation of the civil rights movement for the State Historical Society of Wisconsin (SHSW).
1965, Sept.-1966, June	Received an MA in history at the U.W.-Madison.
1966, June-1967, Jan.	Employed again by the SHSW in collecting records of civil rights activists.
1966, Oct.	Married Carl Wittman, civil rights worker and member of SDS.
1967, Summer	Participated in civil rights activities in Louisiana for CORE.
circa 1967-1968	Divorced Carl Wittman.
1973	Married Michael Stein.
1973-	Working as an oral historian at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.