# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/casey-hayden
# Generated: 2026-08-20T22:52:21.902Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/casey-hayden"
name: "Casey Hayden"
slug: "casey-hayden"
description: "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 (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."
tagline: "American civil rights activist"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1937-10-31"
deathDate: "2023"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           3.7
  momentum:             0
  historical:           1.333333333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  29
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Hayden"
    title: "Casey Hayden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58806794"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations