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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 ...
Once, when asked about the role of women volunteers in SNCC, Stokely Carmichael replied that the "only position for women in SNCC is prone." Two white female activists, Casey Hayden and Mary King, wrote memos in 1964 and 1965 detailing their frustrations at the failure of the civil rights movement to recogniz issues related to women's concerns.
Document 86B: Photo, Casey Hayden (aka Sandra Cason), [1965], Elaine DeLott Baker Papers, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. Included in How and Why Did Women in SNCC (the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee) Author a Pathbreaking Feminist Manifesto, 1964-1965? , Documents selected and interpreted by Kathryn Kish Sklar and Elaine DeLott Baker.
CASEY HAYDEN AND MARY KING. This argument over the problems women faced within the civil rights movement was further developed in the "kind of memo" written in 1965 by white civil rights workers Casey Hayden and Mary King. Their document proved not only a spark for internal debate within SNCC, ...
Hayden, Casey, 1937-2023 Variant names. Detailed View Revision History Sources. Export. ... (SNCC) in Mississippi, Hayden was a strategist and organizer for the 1964 Freedom Summer. In the internal discussion that followed its uncertain outcome, she clashed with the SNCC national executive. View Collection Locations ...
Letter from Casey Hayden to Howard Zinn concerning SNCC fundraising, September 11, 1963, Howard Zinn Papers, WHS. Letter from John Lewis to Howard Zinn, January 7, 1964, Howard Zinn Papers, WHS. Howard Zinn, “Incident in Hattiesburg,” The Nation, May 18, 1964, Pamela Allen Papers, WHS.
11 de oct. de 2020 · She formed an organization in Berkeley to support the southern movement and through it met SNCC’s Executive Director Jim Forman and staff member Casey Hayden. In March 1964, Garman moved to Atlanta to work for the SNCC office full time, as she put it, working “behind the lines to support the front line assault on the segregated South.”
