Mimi Feingold Real is an educator and historian, as well as an activist in the Civil Rights and women's liberation movements. Feingold Real was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1941. She joined the Freedom Rides in June 1961; registered Black voters with Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in Louisiana; was a member of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS); and helped start what became Sudsofloppen, the first women's consciousness-raising group in San Francisco, California. She is also a member of the Bay Area Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement, and continues to speak about her memories of civil rights work. In this interview, Feingold Real discusses growing up in Brooklyn, and the community's demographics; her family's background, including their communist politics; an early interest in social justice; attending Swarthmore College from 1959 to 1963, including campus culture and the Swarthmore Political Action Club (SPAC); volunteering at CORE headquarters in New York; participating in the Freedom Rides, including travel, meeting resistance in the South, and imprisonment in Mississippi; activism in Baltimore, Maryland; joining CORE's Black voter registration efforts in Mississippi in 1963; earning a master's in history from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1966; collecting materials from CORE offices in Louisiana for the Wisconsin Historical Society; joining SDS and working with the white working class in Hoboken, New Jersey; moving to San Francisco in 1967 and joining the draft resistance movement; forming a consciousness-raising group with Chude Pamela Allen and other women in the New Left in San Francisco; leaving social activism in 1968 but eventually becoming an early woman mail carrier for the US Postal Service in San Francisco; joining the then-Regional Oral History Office (ROHO) at UC Berkeley, and researching and conducting interviews for the Earl Warren Era Project; finishing her doctorate in history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1976 and writing her dissertation on Warren's prosecution of the King-Ramsey-Connor Case; establishing Oral History Associates and conducting oral histories for corporate clients like Standard Oil; becoming more connected to Judaism, including mentorship of Rabbi Pinchas Lipner; meeting and marrying her husband, Bob Real; teaching at the Hebrew Academy of San Francisco; raising her son, Joshua; researching the history of the Hebrew Academy and finding an oral history which formed the basis for Rabbi Lipner's libel suit against Richard Goldman; involvement with the Bay Area Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement and continued interest in social justice; and the legacy of the women's liberation movement in the Bay Area.