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Idabelle Yeiser

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]

Idabelle Yeiser
A young Black woman in an oval frame
Idabelle Yeiser, from the 1920 yearbook of Montclair State Normal School
Bornabout 1900
DiedSeptember 24, 1954
Occupation(s)Educator, college professor, writer, poet

Early life and education edit

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]

Career edit

Yeiser taught school and private language classes[10] in Camden, New Jersey, and in Philadelphia.[11] She was known for teaching with puppets.[12] She was an education professor at Dillard University from 1943 to 1946,[9][13] was a professor of education at Cheyney College in 1950,[14] and was an assistant professor of education at Brooklyn College in the 1950s.[15]

In the 1930s, Yeiser was a prize-winning horsewoman in Philadelphia.[16] She was an interviewer with the Mississippi Health Project, working with Melva L. Price and Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, among others.[17] In 1945, she was a consultant to the Oklahoma City Negro Teachers' Institute.[18]

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."[19] In summer 1947, she was one of six American representatives at a UNESCO seminar in France.[20][21]

Works edit

  • "Echoes of Toulouse, France" (1926, The Crisis)[11]
  • Moods: A Book of Verse (1937)
  • "The Why and How of Teaching French to Little Children" (1939, The Modern Language Journal)[10]
  • The Curriculum as an Integrating Force for Ethnic Variations (1943)[22]
  • "The Teacher Beyond the Textbook" (1944, The Southwestern Journal)
  • Lyric and Legend (1947)
  • "Notes on a UNESCO Conference" (1949)[23]
  • "Two Student Teaching Programs" (1953, Journal of Teacher Education)[15]
  • "An Essay on Creativity" (1953, Arts and Activities)[24]

Personal life edit

Yeiser died in 1954.

References edit

  1. ^ Bracks, Lean'tin L. (2014). "Yeiser, Idabelle". In Lean'tin L. Bracks; Jessie Carney Smith (eds.). Black Women of the Harlem Renaissance Era. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 258. ISBN 978-0-8108-8543-1.
  2. ^ West, Sandra L. (2003). "Philadelphia and the Harlem Renaissance". In Aberjhani; Sandra L. West (eds.). Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance. Infobase Publishing. p. 263. ISBN 978-1-4381-3017-0.
  3. ^ Lorraine Elena Roses; Ruth Elizabeth Randolph (1996). "Biographical Notes: Idabelle Yeiser". Harlem's Glory: Black Women Writing, 1900-1950. Harvard University Press. p. 536. ISBN 978-0-674-37269-6.
  4. ^ Yeiser, John G. (1928). Texts and Talks: By the Late Rev. John G. Yeiser. A.M.E. Book Concern.
  5. ^ "Graduate Entertains". Asbury Park Press. 1918-06-29. p. 2. Retrieved 2022-02-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Normal School Graduates". The Montclair Times. 1920-06-12. p. 18. Retrieved 2022-02-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "New Jersey School Teachers Sail for European Vacation". The New York Age. 1925-07-03. p. 2. Retrieved 2022-02-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Educator to Speak at Harvard". California Eagle. 1943-07-08. p. 2. Retrieved 2022-02-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ a b "Dr. Idabelle Yeiser Becomes Professor of Education at Dillard". The New York Age. 1943-04-24. p. 4. Retrieved 2022-02-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ a b Yeiser, Idabelle (1939). "The Why and How of Teaching French to Little Children". The Modern Language Journal. 23 (8): 591–593. doi:10.1111/j.1540-4781.1939.tb02850.x. ISSN 1540-4781.
  11. ^ a b Yeiser, Idabelle (August 1926). "Echoes of Toulouse, France". The Crisis. 32: 191–192 – via Internet Archive.
  12. ^ "Her Puppets are Linguists". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1952-03-09. p. 172. Retrieved 2022-02-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Teachers to Hear Rep. Judd and Dr. Yeiser". The Belleville News-Democrat. 1948-03-17. p. 5. Retrieved 2022-02-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "St. Matthew's Plans Women's Day Service". The Morning News. 1950-01-14. p. 12. Retrieved 2022-02-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ a b Yeiser, Idabelle (December 1953). "Two Student Teaching Programs". Journal of Teacher Education. 4 (4): 300–302. doi:10.1177/002248715300400413. ISSN 0022-4871. S2CID 145488427.
  16. ^ Penn, Franklin (1936-06-13). "Idabelle Yeiser Wins First Place". The Pittsburgh Courier. p. 8. Retrieved 2022-02-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ^ Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, The 1938 Mississippi Health Project (AKA Publications No. 5, December 1938).
  18. ^ "Dillard Educator Back from Tour". The Pittsburgh Courier. 1945-03-24. p. 11. Retrieved 2022-02-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. ^ Plastas, Melinda (2011). A band of noble women : racial politics in the women's peace movement. Internet Archive. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press. pp. 37, 159, 177. ISBN 978-0-8156-3257-3.
  20. ^ Albersheim, Anne (1948-02-18). "Pupils Hear Minister, Doctor on Tolerance". Asbury Park Press. p. 13. Retrieved 2022-02-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  21. ^ "American Educators Appointed for UNESCO Summer Seminar". The Department of State Bulletin. 17: 181. July 27, 1947 – via Internet Archive.
  22. ^ Yeiser, Isabelle (1943). The Curriculum as an integrating force for ethnic variations. Cambridge, Etats-Unis d'Amérique: Massachusetes : Harvard University.
  23. ^ Yeiser, Idabelle (1949). "Notes on a UNESCO Conference". The Journal of Education. 132 (2): 44–47. doi:10.1177/002205744913200207. ISSN 0022-0574. JSTOR 42749618. S2CID 189044265.
  24. ^ Yeiser, Idabelle (May 1953). "An Essay on Creativity". Arts and Activities. 33: 36–37, 49 – via Internet Archive.
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