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15 de ene. de 2023 · Casey Hayden, an important organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during its push for civil rights in the early 1960s and the coauthor of two papers that called out sexism within that organization, and in society in general — documents that are credited with helping to inspire second-wave feminism — died Jan. 4 in Arizona.
Casey Hayden was born Sandra Cason, fourth generation in her little Texas town, where she was raised by her grandmother and her single parent working mom. Attending the University of Texas in Austin as an undergraduate, she was a national leader in one wing of the Student Christian Movement, and was selected for Mortarboard, the national senior women's honorary society of the day.
Casey Hayden (1937-2023, In Memory) SNCC, 1960-66, Texas, Georgia, Mississippi, New York, Michigan. Speech in support of the sit-ins to NSA conference. August 1960 In the Attics of My MindThe Help, the Movie Shining in Sunflower, review of Silver Rights Roots of Feminism in the Redemptive Community Anniversary of the February 1st, 1960 Sit-ins ...
28 de ene. de 2008 · Download Citation | Casey Hayden | Born on October 31, 1937, in Victoria, Texas, Sandra Cason Hayden was exposed to student racial politics when she entered the University of Texas... | Find, read ...
Casey Hayden, one of the few white Southerners to join the anti segregation movement of the 60's in the South, and a widely recognized precursor of the women's liberation movement, died on 1/4/23 with her children holding her hands. Born Sandra Cason, a name she continued to use legally, she was the child of divorced Texas liberals, William ...
WHAT WAS–[Casey Hayden:] Well, because there were, because blacks were excluded from institutions, which is what segregation was, we were creating parallel institutions, that’s what that was all about, so that a freedom vote, when blacks can vote, we were running parallel votes. The freedom schools were a similar strategy which we developed ...
Sandra 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 . With Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Mississippi, Hayden was a strategist and organizer for the 1964 Freedom Summer.
