
The old Howard School that Pauline Young attended from kindergarten through high school. It was located on the corner of 12 Street and Orange Street in Wilmington, Delaware. When it was founded in 1867 it was the only school in Delaware to offer a high school education to blacks. In 1928, the high school moved to a new building located at 13th and Poplar Streets.
Courtesy of Delaware Historical Society
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The new Howard High School building, circa 1930, located at 13th and Poplar Streets in Wilmington, Delaware. Young was a teacher and librarian at the Howard High School for over 30 years.
Courtesy of the Delaware Historical Society.
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Howard High School Faculty, circa 1930. Pictured from left to right:
Front Row: Robert Harris, Anna Broadnax, Helen Worley Webb, George Anderson Johnson (principal), Pauline Young (librarian), Sara Strickland Scott, Millard Naylor.
Second Row: Ethel Barner Harris, Charlotte Slowe, Josephine Weston, Caroline B. Williams, Nellie B. Taylor, Sadie Jones, Thelma Trice Young, Arleon C. Bowser, Gwendolyn Redding
Third Row: Arthur Wheeler, Marguerite Turner, M. Leila Young (mother of Pauline Young), Etta Woodlen, James A. Gardiner, Lillian Spencer Mayo, George Oscar Carrington
Top Row: Emanuel Whitten, Pauline Coleman, Nathalie Anderson Cross, George Whitten
Photo courtesy of Howard High School Alumni Association.
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Mural at 10th Street and Pine Street, Wilmington, Delaware showing historically important figures in local African American community. Young featured in the top row on the right of the right circle.
Photo taken by University of Delaware Library staff.
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