Idabelle Yeiser | |
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 Idabelle Yeiser, from the 1920 yearbook of Montclair State Normal School | |
| Born | about 1900 |
| Died | September 24, 1954 |
| Occupation(s) | Educator, college professor, writer, poet |
Idabelle Yeiser (born c. 1900, died 24 September 1954) was an American woman poet, writer, and educator, who was part of the New Negro Movement in Philadelphia. [1] [2] [3]
Yeiser was the daughter of John G. Yeiser, a pastor in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. [4] She graduated from Asbury Park High School in 1918, [5] and from the New Jersey State Normal School at Montclair in 1920. [6] She earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Pennsylvania, with further studies in Paris and Madrid. [7] [8] In 1940, she earned a doctorate in education at Teachers College, Columbia University. [9] Yeiser was a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. [10]
Yeiser taught school and private language classes [11] in Camden, New Jersey, and in Philadelphia. [12] She was known for teaching with puppets. [13] She was an education professor at Dillard University from 1943 to 1946, [9] [14] was a professor of education at Cheyney College in 1950, [15] and was an assistant professor of education at Brooklyn College in the 1950s. [16]
In the 1930s, Yeiser was a prize-winning horsewoman in Philadelphia. [17] She was an interviewer with the Mississippi Health Project, working with Melva L. Price and Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, among others. [18] In 1945, she was a consultant to the Oklahoma City Negro Teachers' Institute. [19]
Yeiser was active in the peace movement. She was a member of the Philadelphia chapter of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and in the early 1930s had a newspaper column in the Philadelphia Tribune , titled "Peace Corner." [20] In summer 1947, she was one of six American representatives at a UNESCO seminar in France. [21] [22]
Yeiser died in 1954.[ citation needed ]
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