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SNCC was a "beloved community" to Mary King and Casey Hayden, an encompassing lifestyle dedicated to the perfection of moral virtue. They were among the first white women to have staff jobs in the Atlanta headquarters. Mary was the product of six generations of Virginia ministers on her father's side.
Sandra Cason Hayden (October 31, 1937 – January 4, 2023) was an American radical student activist and civil rights worker in the 1960s. Recognized for her defense of direct action in the struggle against racial segregation, in 1960 she was an early recruit to Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). With Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Mississippi, Hayden was a strategist ...
Along with their shared anti-imperialism, SDS and SNCC navigated gender equality within their organizations. In 1965, SNCC activists brought gender oppression to the forefront. SNCC’s Mary King and Casey Hayden wrote, those who are “very hip to the implications of the racial caste system …. don’t seem able to see the sexual-caste system.”
Title: SNCC Position Paper (re women), November, 1964 Author: Unsigned (Mary King, Casey Hayden, Elaine DeLott Baker and others) Keywords: Civil Rights Movement, Southern Freedom Movement, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Waveland Conference, women
Hayden, Casey, 1937-2023. Cason Hayden was an American radical student activist and civil rights worker in the 1960s. Recognized for her defense of direct action in the struggle against racial segregation, in 1960 she was an early recruit to Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). With Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in ...
With Tom Hayden elected SDS president for the 1962–1963 academic year and Casey Hayden heeding the SNCC call to return to Atlanta, they divorced in 1965. While she had had the reputation in the SDS of being "one of the boys," much of the discussion within the SDS inner circle struck her as a young man posturing.
3 de jun. de 2011 · In 1964, two white SNCC members, Casey Hayden and Mary King, dropped a bomb with the publication of a provocative memo titled “Sex and Caste” — considered by some historians to be founding ...
