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'Sex And Caste: A Kind Of Memo'

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In 1965 Casey Hayden and Mary King, both SNCC staff members wrote “Sex and Caste: A Kind of Memo” about the way women were treated. They explained that there was a caste system that society forced women to fall into. This “caste” system was similar to the racial caste system, except the racial caste system was starting to get torn down though the Civil Rights Movement. Many people tried to refute the gender caste system explaining that women have the right to vote and get divorced, but in actuality voting rights could not help women. Their caste system was institutionalized by society and excluded women from positions of authority. King and Hayden also explained that currently there were no organizations or people talking publically about these

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