Pauline A. Young Papers. 1920-1991.

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Pauline A. Young Papers. 1920-1991.

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The Pauline A. Young Papers document her life as an educator, civil rights and community activist. The papers include biographical materials about her and her family, including a small amount of information about her aunt and uncle Alice Dunbar Nelson and Paul Laurence Dunbar. The bulk of the collection focuses on her efforts in the struggle for equality and civil rights, particularly her activities with the NAACP Wilmington (DE) Branch and the Delaware Fellowship Commission. Included are correspondence, news articles, programs, reports, scrapbooks, and a few photographs. Of note is the series "Letters to the Editor" chronicling the many letters Young penned in her crusade for justice.

12 linear ft.

Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library

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Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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Organizational History and List of Officers Organizational History 1909 Issued the “Call,” a statement calling for a conference to protest discrimination and violence against African Americans Convened the National Negro Conference on May 31 and June 1, New York, N.Y. E...

Nelson, Alice Moore Dunbar, 1875-1935

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Alice Dunbar-Nelson, a writer, teacher, and activist for African-American Civil rights, was extremely active in state and regional politics. She was married to the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar from 1989 until 1902. She was born on July 19, 1875, as Alice Ruth Moore, in New Orleans, Louisiana. She attended public school in New Orleans and enrolled in a teacher's training program at Straight University in 1890. Upon receiving her degree in 1892, she began teaching in New Orleans. ...

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Young, Pauline A., 1900-1991.

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Pauline A. Young (b. 1900 d. 1991) teacher, librarian, and lecturer was a noted community leader and activist in Wilmington, Delaware. She began teaching at Howard High School in 1919 and later became the school librarian, a position she held until her retirement in 1961. She had a great passion for Black history and published numerous bibliographies and book reviews. She lectured extensively about Black history, especially about Blacks in Delaware and authored the chapter "The Negro in Delaware...

Delaware Fellowship Commission.

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Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906

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Poet and author. From the description of Papers of Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1873-1936. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71067921 Paul Laurence Dunbar of Dayton, Ohio, was an African-American writer of fiction, poetry, and plays. Dunbar is widely acknowledged as the first important black poet in American literature. He also worked at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C, as an assistant clerk, 1897-1898. From the description of Paul Laurence Dunbar letters and leaf...