Remembering Activist Tom Hayden

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Michael Montgomery

Oct 24, 2016 at

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Tom Hayden poses before signing copies of his book, 'Ending The War in Iraq' at Book Soup June 24, 2007 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo: Michael Buckner/Getty Images)

Activist Tom Hayden died Sunday night in Santa Monica of complications from a stroke he suffered a year and a half ago. Hayden was a civil rights advocate who rode with the Freedom Riders in the South during the 60s. He became most famous as an anti-war activist and founder of Students for a Democratic Society, and for his marriage to actress Jane Fonda. Hayden was very active in California politics serving in the California Assembly and Senate and mounting a failed bid for the Governor’s office. Joining us to remember Tom Hayden is Todd Gitlin, Professor of Journalism and Sociology at Columbia University. Gitlin succeeded Hayden as president of Students for a Democratic Society.

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Longtime Progressive Activist Tom Hayden Dies At 76 (KQED News)

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Todd Gitlin, professor journalism and sociology, Columbia University; former president, Students for a Democratic Society; author, "Occupy Nation: The Roots, the Spirit and the Promise of Occupy Wall Street"

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