Exie Lee Hampton (1893 – 1979), born Exie Lee Kelley, was an American educator, community leader and clubwoman in Southern California. She served on the national board of the YWCA during World War II, and was executive director of the Eastside Settlement House in Los Angeles after the war.

Early life

Exie Lee Kelley (or Kelly) was born in Boone County, Missouri. She attended Lincoln Institute in Jefferson City, Missouri, and Kansas State University, Kansas State Agricultural College, earning a bachelor's degree in home economics. She pursued further training in summer sessions at Columbia University and the University of Southern California."Who's Who in California: Mrs. Exie Lee K. Hampton"
''California Negro Directory 1942-1943'' (New Age Publishing 1942): 217. via Internet Archive

Career

Hampton was a home economics teacher. By 1921, she was a teacher-trainer at West Virginia State University, West Virginia State College, at Wilberforce University, and at University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, Branch Normal School in Pine Bluff, Arkansas."Home Economics Conference"
''The Southern Workman'' (July 1921): 328. She taught for five years at East Side High School in El Centro, California. In the early 1930s, she became executive director of the Clay Street Clubs, which she developed with others into the Clay Avenue YWCA, a branch that served African-American girls and women in San Diego's Logan Heights neighborhood. She left the San Diego work to join the national board of the YWCA, in the USO division, during World War II."Former YWCA Worker Appointed House Head"
''Pittsburgh Courier'' (July 27, 1946): 8. via Newspapers.com She was also active in the San Diego chapter of the NAACP. In 1946, she became executive director of the Eastside Settlement House in Los Angeles. In 1961, she was leader of the Victoria Business and Professional Women's Club of Riverside, California. She was on the first board of directors of the Inland Area National Urban League, Urban League, when it started in 1966. Hampton was active in the black sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha for many years. In 1937, she attended and spoke at the western regional conference of the group. In 1950, she chaired the western regional conference.

Personal life

Exie Lee Kelley married a pastor, Charles H. Hampton, in 1929, and as the pastor's wife was active in women's groups in the Baptist churches in El Centro and San Diego. Rev. Hampton was president of the Western Baptist State Convention for over thirty years, before he died in 1979.Church History
Bethel Baptist Church. Exie Lee Hampton also died in 1979, in San Diego, in her eighties.

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External links

* A photograph of Exie Lee Hampton in the 1940s
"Children receive food at the Eastside Settlement House, Los Angeles, ca. 1941-1950"
in the Charlotta Bass / California Eagle Photograph Collection, University of Southern California Libraries.
A photograph of Exie Lee Hampton with other members of the Riverside NAACP
at Riversider website. * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hampton, Exie Lee 1893 births 1979 deaths 20th-century African-American women 20th-century African-American educators 20th-century American women educators 20th-century American educators African-American schoolteachers Alpha Kappa Alpha members Home economists Kansas State University alumni Lincoln University (Missouri) alumni People from Boone County, Missouri People from San Diego Schoolteachers from California University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff faculty West Virginia State University faculty Wilberforce University faculty YWCA leaders