S. M. Miller
| Seymour M. Miller | |
|---|---|
| Education | Columbia University |
| Occupation | Author |
| Spouse(s) | Jean Baker Miller |
| Children | Edward Miller |
Seymour M. (Mike) Miller, Ph.D., is an economic-political sociologist, activist, and emeritus professor of sociology at Boston University.
A graduate of Brooklyn College, Princeton University and Columbia University, Miller taught for many years at Boston University in their Sociology Department. Miller has also held distinguished research and teaching positions at numerous other universities, including Boston College, New York University, the London School of Economics, Cornell University, and Harvard University.
Miller founded Ideas for Action in the late 1940s, a magazine that brought social science ideas to union and community activists. He helped found Social Policy and has remained a contributing editor for three decades. During the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, he organized and chaired a social science advisory committee to the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). He also joined the Ford Foundation, and initiated the Foundation’s support of Latino advocacy groups and grants to CORE, the National Urban League, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). He wrote speeches for Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as an economic policy chapter in Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, King’s 1967 Annual Report to the SCLC. He was also active in the areas of welfare rights and anti-poverty policies.
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