women’s liberation movement
By the fall of 1965 Hayden's beloved community was falling apart. the movement she knew, and had helped to build, based on nonviolence and interracialism. While she could intellectually understand the desire for black nationalism, and even see how it grew out of grassroots organizing in the south (see eyes on the prize), it wasn’t the movement she had helped to build anymore.
By the time women in SDS picked up the message of a A Kind of Memo, Hayden had moved on to the counterculture. She left Mary King's family cabin in Virginia and travelled to NYC where she re-united with some of the women from the Tugaloo Literacy House.