Well-Known Activist Tom Hayden has Died at 76

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The Associated Press reported that Tom Hayden received bad reputation during the 1960s and well-known as anti-war activist and civil rights. He served at least 18 years as a legislator for California State has died at the age of 76. Barbara Williams (Hayden’s wife) has confirmed that Hayden has passed away on 23^rd October 2016 at UCLA Medical Center after a long illness due to a stroke. Hayden was born in 1939 in Royal Oak, Michigan. He was at the age of 21 when he first joined the public realization as a founding member of the civil rights group SDS (Students for a Democratic Society). In 1962, he was one of the drafters of the Port Huron Statement and their major goal was a short political agenda for an entire generation.

Hayden was one of the top organizers of the anti-war protests in 1968 and their major target was to disrupt the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. It is important that he always against political violence, but their protests turned into violence and he was one of those arrested & charged with provocation to disturbance from the infamous Chicago Seven trial. He was one of the five organizers thrown down due to the charges were ultimately reversed on their appeal. Hayden also protested against Vietnam War in early 1970s and organized a number of trips to Southeast Asia. He also made a controversial tour of North Vietnam in 1972 with his wife former wife Jane Fonda.  He won a seat in the California State Assembly in 1982 and served for 10 years and then joined the office of the State Senator till 2000.