Howard E. Young (March 12, 1871 – October 3, 1945), was the first African American licensed as a pharmacist in Maryland.
[1] He was educated at M Street High School in Washington, D.C., then he received a degree in pharmacy at Howard University.
[2] After finishing postgraduate studies at Howard, Young returned to Baltimore in 1895, where he worked as a drug clerk at a pharmacy in the Seton Hill neighborhood.
[3] In 1927, Mayor William Frederick Broening appointed Young to serve on the Baltimore City Jail Board.
In 1913, Young attempted to test Baltimore's housing segregation laws in court by purchasing a home on a then-predominately White block in the Upton neighborhood.