Haydee Campbell
{{short description|American educator}}
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.)
Early life
Haydee E. Benchley was born in Texas. She attended Oberlin College.Monroe Alphus Majors, [https://books.google.com/books?id=pZ4TAAAAYAAJ&q=Campbell&pg=PA329 Noted Negro Women: Their Triumphs and Activities] (Donohue & Henneberry 1893): 329. She was the first black teacher to study with Susan Blow at the St. Louis Kindergarten Training School.Blythe Farb Heinitz and Betty Leibovich, with Charlotte Jean Anderson, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Y0M-CgAAQBAJ&dq=Haydee+Campbell&pg=PT66 "History of Early Childhood Teacher Education"] in Leslie J. Couse and Sarah L. Recchia, eds., Handbook of Early Childhood Teacher Education (Routledge 2015). {{ISBN|9781317816287}}
Career
Campbell taught kindergarten in St. Louis, Missouri.John William Gibson, [https://books.google.com/books?id=AXJDAQAAMAAJ&dq=Colored+Women&pg=PA122-IA1 The Colored American from Slavery to Honorable Citizenship] (J. L. Nichols 1903): 122. 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.Barbara Beatty, [https://books.google.com/books?id=s5XiKbMrTiwC&dq=Haydee+Campbell&pg=PA109 Preschool Education in America: The Culture of Young Children from the Colonial Era to the Present] (Yale University Press 1997): 109. {{ISBN|9780300072730}} 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".[https://books.google.com/books?id=YjsmAQAAIAAJ&dq=Haidee+Campbell+kindergarten&pg=PA64 "American Kindergarteners"] Kindergarten Magazine 12(1900): 64. An attendee reported, "Her enunciation was exquisite...her words were well chosen and her subject well handled."Rebecca Stiles Taylor, [https://www.proquest.com/docview/492868365 "A True Story of 50 Years of Lifting and Climbing"] Chicago Defender (February 18, 1950): 10. In 1903, she managed the kindergarten programming at the Tuskegee Institute Summer School for Teachers.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9011167/haydee_campbell_at_tuskegee_summer/ Untitled brief news item], The Colored American (June 13, 1903): 11. via Newspapers.com{{open access}}
During World War I she was active with provisions for black soldiers in the War Camp Community Service at Manhattan, Kansas,[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9010700/war_camp_community_service_1919/ "Discuss Hospitality Plans"] Manhattan Republic (February 13, 1919): 1. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} until ill health took her from that work.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9010516/haydee_campbell_ill_1919/ "Mrs. Haydee Campbell Ill"] Manhattan Daily Nationalist (February 21, 1919): 1. via Newspapers.com{{open access}}
Personal life
Haydee Benchley married J. Wesley Campbell; they had one daughter. Haydee Campbell died a widow in 1921, in St. Louis.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9237504/haydee_campbell_died_1921/ Death notices], St. Louis Star and Times (October 27, 1921): 19. via Newspapers.com{{open access}}
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Category:Oberlin College alumni