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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. 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.
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 ...
4 de ene. de 2023 · Sandra Cason “Casey” Hayden. October 31, 1937 – January 4, 2023. “I Was Insulted About Laws Saying Who I Could Associate With.”. A force in the peace and social justice movements. Key organizer of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during its civil rights drive in the early 1960s.
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.
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.
Also on this study tour King met another student activist, Casey Hayden. Hayden would also become a staff member of SNCC and close friend to King. King marked this study tour as "a turning point in [her] life." When King returned to Ohio Wesleyan University after her study tour she set up her own student organization.
