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Black History: The History Behind The Names
Nathan Benjamin Young was born to a slave Susan Smith in Newbern, Hale County, AL. At the end of the Civil War, when Nathan was three years old, she escaped and settled in Tuscaloosa, where she met and married Frank Young.
Young spent three months at Stillman Institute (now Stillman College), and then enrolled in Talladega College, where he received a classical education in the school's teacher-training branch. He graduated from Talladega in 1884.
Dr. Nathan Benjamin Young September 15, 1862 --
- July 19, 1933
In 1892, Young was hired by Booker T. Washing- ton to teach at Tuskegee In- stitute, where he remained for 5 years. In 1897, Young took a position at Georgia State Industrial College for Colored Youths (now Savan- nah State University).
In 1897, Young was named the fourth president of the Alabama State Teach- ers Association for Negroes. In 1901, Young became President of Florida A & M College, where he tried to balance the agricultural and vocational education pro- gram with coursework in
the liberal arts. After World War I, however, white state officials became intolerant of teaching liberal arts to Black youths and forced Young out in 1923.
As a result of his mission to expand the teaching to in- clude more than of agricul- ture and vocational training, Young was forced out of the presidency of Lincoln University in Missouri and other schools of higher learning.
In early 1933, he moved in with his daughter in Tampa, where he died on July 19.
Young Middle Magnet School
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