Phebe Archon Hayes is an American independent historian, focused on the African American history of Iberia Parish, Louisiana. She previously worked as a speech pathologist, academic administrator, and professor. Hayes is the founder of the

Iberia African American Historical Society Iberia African American Historical Society (IAAHS), located in Iberia Parish, Louisiana, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that researches, preserves, and educates about the history of African Americans in Iberia Parish. IAAHS was founded in 2 ...

(IAAHS). She worked in multiple roles (including as a dean) at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL Lafayette) from 1986 until 2013.

Biography

She worked the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL Lafayette) from 1986 until 2013, and was a part of the department of communication sciences and disorders faculty. She served as dean of the college of general studies at UL Lafayette, from 1998 to 2013. In her period of retirement she was volunteering at the library, and found a book about notable physicians from the Iberia Parish from 1859 to 1959, but only White men were mention. She had memories of a

oral history Oral history is the collection and study of historical information about individuals, families, important events, or everyday life using audiotapes, videotapes, or transcriptions of planned interviews. These interviews are conducted with people wh ...

from her childhood about local African-American doctors, and she was inspired to research the missing history. In her research she found some twenty historical African American physicians from Iberia Parish, including Dr.

Emma Wakefield-Paillet Emma Wakefield-Paillet (November 21, 1868 – August 26, 1946) was an American physician. Wakefield-Paillet was the first African-American woman to graduate from medical school and to practice medicine in Louisiana. Biography Wakefield-Paillet w ...

. She helped raise money to get a historic plaque installed in 2018, in honor of Wakefield-Paillet. Her work in researching Wakefield-Paillet was recognized, and she was a 2019 recipient of the Trailblazer Award by New Orleans magazine. Hayes founded the

(IAAHS) in 2017, a

501(c)(3) A 501(c)(3) organization is a United States corporation, trust, unincorporated association or other type of organization exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of Title 26 of the United States Code. It is one of the 29 types of 50 ...

nonprofit organization focused on African American history in Iberia Parish, Louisiana. Hayes and IAAHS have also partnered with the UL Lafayette's Center for Louisiana Studies as a repository of IAAHS historical and archival collection.

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Center for Louisiana Studies, UL Lafayette {{DEFAULTSORT:Hayes, Phebe Year of birth missing (living people) African-American academic administrators African-American women academics African-American historians 21st-century American historians American academics American academic administrators American women historians People from Iberia Parish, Louisiana Speech and language pathologists University of Louisiana at Lafayette faculty Living people