Young, Pauline A., 1900-1991

found: University of Delaware Library Department of Special Collections website, viewed August 6, 2018:Pauline A. Young Collection (Pauline Young was born c. 1900 in West Medford, Massachusetts; moved to Wilmington, Delaware, where she attended kindergarten through high school graduation at the Howard School; her aunt was the poet, educator, and activist Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935), who was married to the renowned poet Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906); received her bachelor's degree in Education from the University of Pennsylvania in 1921, going on to earn a master's degree in Library Science at Columbia University; worked intermittently at Howard High School as a librarian from 1919-1955, also teaching for a time at the University of Southern California and working on the press staff of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama; after she retired, she served in the Peace Corps, training librarians in Jamaica from 1962-1964; died June 1991)

found: Dictionary of American library biography, 2003:pages 230-233 (Pauline Alice Young; born August 17, 1900; received a B.S. degree in education from the University of Pennsylvania in 1921; received a B.S. degree in library service from Columbia in 1935; served as the school librarian at Howard High School from 1924 to 1960; nationally respected writer and authority on African-American history in Delaware; prolific writer; avid in interest in collecting and preserving Delaware's African-American history)

found: Wikipedia, viewed August 6, 2018(Pauline A. Young; Pauline Alice Young (August 17, 1900-June 26, 1991); an African-American teacher, librarian, historian, lecturer, community activist, humanitarian, and individualist; born in West Medford, Massachusetts; attended Howard High School, which was the only school for African-American students in the state of Delaware; in 1928, Young became a librarian at Howard High School's Stevens Memorial Library, and she eventually joined the staff of her alma mater, Howard High School, to teach history and Latin; in 1935, she received her graduate degree from the Columbia University School of Library Science; was a devoted lifelong member of her local and the national chapter of the NAACP; wrote a chapter in "Delaware: a history of the First State" titled "The Negro in Delaware: Past and Present" that focused on the early history of African-Americans in the state; was a leader in preserving black history in Delaware; collected memorabilia, newspaper and magazine clippings in the 1920s; focused on Black history specifically related to Delaware; documented black family histories; served at Howard High over a span of 36 years, from 1919 until her retirement in 1955; died on June 26, 1991 in Wilmington Hospital)