Hayden (right) with Dorie Ladner and Cordell Reagon in Greenwood, Mississippi, 1963
Born
Sandra Cason
(1937-10-31)October 31, 1937
Austin, Texas, U.S.
Died
January 4, 2023(2023-01-04) (aged 85)
Arizona, U.S.
Education
Victoria College University of Texas, Austin (BA)
Occupation
Civil rights activist
Movement
Students for a Democratic Society, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Sandra Cason Hayden (October 31, 1937 – January 4, 2023) 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 (SDS). With Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Mississippi, Hayden was a strategist and organizer for the 1964 Freedom Summer. In the internal discussion that followed its uncertain outcome, she clashed with the SNCC national executive.
Hayden's vision was of a "radically democratic" movement driven by organizers in the field. In defending grassroots organization she believed she was also advocating for the voice of women. In "Sex and Caste" (November 1965), a reworking of an internal memo they had drafted with other SNCC women, Hayden and Mary King drew "parallels" with the experience of African-Americans to suggest that women are "caught up in a common-law caste system that operates, sometimes subtly, forcing them to work around or outside hierarchical structures of power." Since regarded as a bridge connecting civil rights to women's liberation, Hayden describes its publication as her "last action as a movement activist."
In the decades that followed, she continued to acknowledge the civil-rights struggle of the era as the forerunner for women, and for all those, who have taken up "the idea of organising for themselves."
1962 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. With Tom Hayden elected SDS president for the 1962–1963 academic year, and CaseyHayden heeding the SNCC call to return to Atlanta...
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Community rounds—Hayden finished ninth and eighth. Hayden finished eighth in the championship with 127 points, 240 points behind the champion Casey Stoner and...
joking remark in response to a SNCC position paper written by his friends CaseyHayden and Mary E. King on the position of women in the movement. In the course...
following a standing ovation given to an intervention by Sandra Cason (CaseyHayden). She was recruited on the spot by Alan Haber for new, rival, campus...
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August 1960. There he witnessed a dramatic intervention by Sandra Cason (CaseyHayden) urging support for the fledgling Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee...
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the League's bi-monthly, Liberation. In November 1965, he persuaded CaseyHayden to let him publish under the title "Sex and Caste" a paper she had been...
are now: and we don't need to know. "To get us through the impasse," CaseyHayden tried to attach to Forman's proposal various sub-committees and provisos...
Joan Browning, Norma F. Collins, James Forman, Sandra Cason "Casey" Hayden, Tom Hayden, Per Laursen, Bernard Lee, Lenora Taitt and Robert Zellner. Included...
new full-time position of communications director for SNCC assisted by CaseyHayden, Mary King and Dottie Miller, until September 1966. During this period...
in the SNCC (who were later identified as White allies Mary King and CaseyHayden) openly challenged the way women were treated when they issued the "SNCC...
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included noted organizers like Rennie Davis, Richard Rothstein, and CaseyHayden lived in Uptown, undertaking the slow and uneven process of pushing locals...
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