Correspondence, 1948-1967

Pauline Young was very active in her community and served in a leadership capacity in a number of organizations. The bulk of this series documents Pauline Young’s civil rights activities in the Delaware Fellowship Commission (DFC) and the NAACP. DFC was organized to promote better racial, religious and nationality understanding. Pauline Young was a founder, served as secretary and was chairman of the Hospital Committee that fought against segregated facilities and discriminatory hiring practices and fought for equal opportunity in the training of nurses. The DFC materials also include a few folders about the Fellowship House that was affiliated with Fellowship Commission. Ms. Young was a life long member of the NAACP and served in several leadership positions on the national, local and state level. In addition to the minutes, reports, correspondence, news clippings, and printed material in this series there are scrapbooks in Series J.

Other organizations include the Ardencroft Association, which is a nonprofit corporation that owns the land for the Village of Ardencroft, New Castle County, Delaware, the community where Pauline Young lived. The files on the Association include minutes, correspondence and financial papers related to the Theta Sorority and served as editor and journalist for The Delta, the sorority’s journal. In this series are a few copies of The Delta for 1924, 1926, and 1932. Ms. Young was a member of the Links, Inc., a women’s organization, and The Memorial Society of Wilmington, an organization for preplanned funeral arrangements. There are two folders of materials related to these two groups.