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Size | 42.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 20,000 items) |
Abstract | The collection of white historian and Kenan professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, George Brown Tindall (1921-2006), contains office files, drafts of books, research files, correspondence, and other papers, 1940s-2000s. Also included are materials related to Tindall's activities with the Southern Historical Association and a copy print of a circa 1894 photograph of the Neptune Volunteer Fire Company of Greenville, S.C., an African American fire company. |
Creator | Tindall, George Brown. |
Curatorial Unit | Southern Historical Collection |
Language | English. |
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George Brown Tindall, Kenan professor of history emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was born in Greenville, S.C., in 1921. He earned a bachelor's degree from Furman University in 1942, and a master's degree and Ph.D. in history from the University of North Carolina, 1948 and 1951. Tindall is the author of a number of works, including South Carolina Negroes, 1877-1900 (1952); The Emergence of the New South, 1913-1945 (1967); The Ethnic Southerners (1976); and W. W. Norton's American history textbook, America: A Narrative History (1984-2003).
Tindall joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina as an associate professor in 1958 and became a full professor in 1964. He was named Kenan professor in 1969 and became professor emeritus in 1990. Tindall taught United States history and the history of the American South since Reconstruction. His career with the University of North Carolina was preceded by teaching positions at East Kentucky State College, 1950-1951; the University of Mississippi, 1951-1952; the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, 1952-1953; and Louisiana State University, 1953-1958.
Tindall was a member of a number of scholarly organizations, including the American Historical Association; the Southern Historical Association, which he served as president in 1973; and the Historical Society of North Carolina.
Tindall married Carliss Blossom McGarrity in 1946; they had two children.
Back to TopThe collection contains office files, drafts of books, research files, correspondence, and other papers, 1940s-2000s, of George Brown Tindall, historian and Kenan professor of history emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Also included are materials related to Tindall's activities with the Southern Historical Association and a copy print of a circa 1894 photograph of the Neptune Volunteer Fire Company of Greenville, S.C., an African American fire company.
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Image Folder PF-4308/1 |
Neptune Volunteer Fire Company of Greenville, S.C., circa 1894Photographic print. Neptune Volunteer fire fighters were African Americans. Includes a copy of a 20 May 1955 letter from George B. Tindall to Gil Rowland of The Greenville News explaining the origin of the image. |
Image Folder: PF-4308/1
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