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While this protest confirmed Hayden’s belief that women’s ways of community organizing were superior to those of the men, who admitted to making little progress of their own that summer, Hayden still faced a dilemma. The women she sought to organize were victims of abuse at the hands of the very men that the SDS male workers hoped to organize.[16] In both the article she wrote for the SDS Bulletin and in an interview published in New Left Review, Hayden only alluded to these problems briefly.
“All of these women have had horrible histories with their husbands, personal histories … [being] beaten up.”
However, in 2014, Hayden explained she was “at a loss as to how to raise this contradiction for discussion on the project [17] (doc 86a) and remembered thinking “it was foolhardy of me to try to organize women alone and on my own. I needed some help. … A Kind of Memo] was the result.” (Doc 86a)
[1] Hayden notes how generous this was, she clearly considered herself still part of SNCC> She contacted the head office when she was fined for participating in a sit in while working in Chicago http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15932coll2/id/6645/rec/19 and interfaced with the SNCC freedom school in Chicago during that summer.