Background
Kaiser was born in Kansas City, Missouri. She grew up in a time when African Americans in the South were not allowed the opportunity of a higher education.
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Inez Yeargan Kaiser
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Kaiser has a Bachelor"s degree in from Kansas Teacher"s College in Pittsburg, Kansas and a Masters Degree in Home Economics from, graduating with a Certificate in Mass Communication. She also studied at Chicago University, Rockhurst University and Dartmouth College. Graduate Student of Color Awards AEJMC Public Relations Division.
She has also undertaken special training in radio and television network, retailing and merchandising in fashions.
Career
She has earned a reputation for being the “first” in many African-American female enterprises. But she was determined to gain an education and did. Prior to finding her place in public relations, she taught for over 20 years in public schools in Evanston, Illinois.
Kansas City, Kansas.
And Kansas City, Missouri. She then founded Inez Kaiser & Associates in 1957. lieutenant is the oldest African-American, female-owned public relations firm in the country.
This made her the first African American woman to own and run her own law firm.
Kaiser also was the first African-American woman to head an agency with national clients and the first to join Public Relations Society of America. She decided to go into public relations and was hooked immediately. In 1957, she opened Inez Kaiser & Associates, the first public relations firm headed by an African American woman in the United States. lieutenant was also the first African American owned business to open in Kansas City, Missouri.
She began writing her column, ‘Fashion Wise and Otherwise,’ as a hobby, but became so interested in helping the women of her race, she has devoted the past two years to contacting, publishers across the country, as well as promoting the use of pictures of models of color, giving them employment in areas where they had never been considered before. She also wrote a column in The Kansas City Star, “As I See lieutenant”.
