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About Casey Hayden
- Sandra Cason "Casey" Hayden (born October 31, 1937), American, was a 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 since, she has 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."
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