Alan Haber

Alan Haber
Haber in 2007
Born (1936-07-29) July 29, 1936
EducationUniversity of Michigan (BA)
OccupationsActivist
Cabinetmaker
Known forFirst president of Students for a Democratic Society

Robert Alan Haber (born July 29, 1936) is an American activist. In 1960 he was elected the first president of the now-defunct Students for a Democratic Society, a left-wing student activist organization. FBI files at the time indicated his official title as Field Secretary. Described variously at the time as "Ann Arbor's resident radical" and "reticent visionary", Haber organized a human rights conference in April of that year which "marked the debut of SDS" and invited four organizers of the 1960 NAACP sit-ins against segregated lunch counters in Greensboro, North Carolina.

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