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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the George Brown Tindall Papers #4308, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Later additions received from Blossom Tindall and Blair Tindall in 2007 and 2008 (Acc. 100603, 100721, and 101005).

Provenance

Received from George Brown Tindall of Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1981 (Acc. 82050), 1986 (Acc. 86106), 1990 (Acc. 90080 and 90088), and 2002 (Acc. 99211).

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Processed: April 2004

Encoded: April 2004

Updated: May 2019

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• Historians--North Carolina.
• Southern Historical Association.
• Tindall, George Brown.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Faculty--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dept. of History.
• African American fire fighters--Photographs.
• African Americans--South Carolina--Photographs.

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.

The 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.

Image Folder: PF-4308/1