Haydee Campbell (died October 25, 1921) was an American educator, an advocate for kindergarten for African-American children. (Her first name is also spelled Haidee in some sources.)
Haydee Campbell (died October 25, 1921) was an American educator, an advocate for kindergarten for African-American children. (Her first name is also spelled Haidee in some sources.)
Haydee E. Benchley was born in Texas. She attended Oberlin College. [1] She was the first black teacher to study with Susan Blow at the St. Louis Kindergarten Training School. [2]
Campbell taught kindergarten in St. Louis, Missouri. [3] In 1882, Haydee Campbell was hired to supervise kindergarten programs for African-American children in the public schools of St. Louis. Beginning in 1896, she chaired the Kindergarten Department of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs. [4] In 1899, she addressed the NACW national convention in Chicago on the topic "Why the National Association of Colored Women Should Devise Means for Establishing Kindergartens". [5] An attendee reported, "Her enunciation was exquisite...her words were well chosen and her subject well handled." [6] In 1903, she managed the kindergarten programming at the Tuskegee Institute Summer School for Teachers. [7]
During World War I she was active with provisions for black soldiers in the War Camp Community Service at Manhattan, Kansas, [8] until ill health took her from that work. [9]
Haydee Benchley married J. Wesley Campbell; they had one daughter. Haydee Campbell died a widow in 1921, in St. Louis. [10]
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