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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 and organizer for the 1964 Freedom Summer.
13 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...
4 de ene. de 2023 · Casey Hayden attended SNCC’s second organizing conference in 1960 and began working with Ella Baker as a campus traveler for a human relations project. Under Ms. Baker’s guidance, she did everything from taking minutes at meetings to organizing and participating in the Albany Freedom Rides .
13 de ene. de 2023 · Her efforts with SNCC included one of the last Freedom Rides in 1961. She moved to New York City later that year and married fellow activist Tom Hayden. Cason moved to Mississippi in 1963 to work with SNCC, and she served as a strategist and organizer for 1964’s Freedom Summer.
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.
15 de ene. de 2023 · The SNCC Digital Gateway, an internet archive of the movement, posted news of her death on its website. No cause was given. Ms. Hayden, a native Texan, was a graduate student at the University of Texas in Austin in early 1960 when she joined Black students in anti-segregation protests.
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 arrested.
