“Historians have famous that these girls in flip organized consciousness-raising teams that have been catalytic for ladies engaged on their very own pursuits of equality and success,” she mentioned by e-mail, “and which might give rise to the stirrings of the U.S. feminist motion.”
In 1966 the memo was printed in Liberation, a journal of the Warfare Resisters League, giving it wider publicity.
Professor King, who shared homes with Ms. Hayden in Atlanta and in Mississippi, mentioned she was all the time struck by how deeply Ms. Hayden thought concerning the points surrounding equality.
“She specifically felt that this was a Southern difficulty, it was not a Black difficulty,” she mentioned by telephone, including that Ms. Hayden was continually scrutinizing herself to ensure she was effectively knowledgeable and on the precise path.
Sandra Cason (she later adopted the primary title Casey) was born on Oct. 31, 1937, in Austin. Her mom, Eula Cason, was granted a divorce from her husband, William, when Sandra was a 12 months outdated, and given custody.
“Mother was a single working mom, liberal and commenting on the information on the breakfast desk as she learn the paper and smoked cigarettes, complained concerning the absence of equal pay in her skilled life,” Ms. Hayden recalled within the “Fingers on the Plow” essay.
Ms. Hayden graduated from Patti Welder Excessive College and the two-year program at Victoria School, the place she was pupil council secretary, after which enrolled on the College of Texas. She majored in English and, after incomes her bachelor’s diploma in 1959, stayed on as a graduate assistant, changing into more and more energetic within the nationwide Y.W.C.A. and in anti-segregation protests.
Supply: NY Times