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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 co-author 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 on Jan. 4 in Arizona.
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.”
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 ...
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 ...
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.
22 de sept. de 2016 · A Kind of Memo. by Casey Hayden and Mary King (1965) This paper about women in social movements was one of the first documents of the emerging women's liberation movement. by Casey Hayden and Mary King (1965) (Editors Note: Casey Hayden and Mary King circulated this paper on women in the civil rights movement based on their experiences as ...
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.
