About Pauline A. Young
Pauline Alice Young (August 17, 1900 – June 26, 1991) was an African-American teacher, librarian, historian, lecturer, community activist, humanitarian, and individualist. == Early life and education == Pauline A. Young was born in West Medford, Massachusetts to James Ross Young and Mary Leila Young. Her father was a prominent caterer, and her mother was an English teacher. Young had three other siblings including a younger brother, Laurence T., and two older sisters, Ethel Corinne and Leila Ruth. When Pauline was still a child, her father deserted while the family was still living in Massachusetts. Her family moved to Wilmington, Delaware shortly after to be closer to her mother's family. There, she was raised by three "parents"—her mother, grandmother, and her aunt. Young's aunt, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, a writer, activist and poet, greatly influenced Young to follow in her footsteps, and Young considered her to be an inspiration. Young occasionally reminisced about her childhood home, describing it as a "wayside inn and an underground railroad for visiting Negroes and white literary friends, who wouldn't go to the hotel, you know, since the hotel wouldn't admit Negroes." Among these visitors were influential activists and writers such as W. E. B. DuBois and James Weldon Johnson. Young attended Howard High School, which was the only school for African-American students in the state of Delaware.
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