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22 de ene. de 2023 · Casey Hayden, a civil rights and feminism pioneer, has died at the age of 85. Hayden was among the thousands of civil rights activists who fought in the move...
22 de ene. de 2023 · Casey Hayden, a civil rights and feminism pioneer, has died at the age of 85. Hayden was among the thousands of civil rights activists who fought in the movement led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and was a driving force in women’s and Black American’s fight for equality in the country. Sunday TODAY’s Willie Geist remembers a life well lived.
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 ...
22 de ene. de 2023 · Casey Hayden, a civil rights and feminism pioneer, has died at the age of 85. Hayden was among the thousands of civil rights activists who fought in the movement led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr ...
Sandra Cason “Casey” Hayden was born on October 31, 1937, in Victoria, Texas (she maintains her birth name Sandra Cason). Raised by her mother and her maternal grandparents, her affinity for those on the margins came personally, as her mother was the “only divorced woman in town,” the young Hayden “identif[ied] with outsiders.”
14 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 co-author of two papers that called out sexism within that organization, and society in general — documents that are credited with helping to inspire second-wave feminism — died on Jan. 4 in Arizona.
Hayden, Casey. Authoritative Name: Hayden, Casey. Biography: Casey Hayden (born Sandra Cason), white woman, National YWCA project worker, SDS and SNCC activist, and wife of Tom Hayden, served as the observer with the eight Freedom Riders who rode by train from Atlanta to Albany on December 10, 1961. She was not arrested when the others were ...
