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George Brown Tindall joined the UNC history faculty in 1958 as an associate professor, became a full professor in 1964 and a Kenan professor in 1969, and retired as emeritus in 1990. Born in Greenville, South Carolina, he took his M.A. and Ph.D. in history at UNC and taught United States and post-Reconstruction Southern history.
Source: UNC Libraries: George Brown Tindall Papers finding aid
1921–2006 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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The historian George Brown Tindall taught in the Department of History at Chapel Hill, and his papers hold an item from 1894 with the main run from the 1940s to the 2000s. The material also includes the Southern Historical Association and photographs of African Americans in South Carolina, including Black firefighters. Part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4308.
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