George Brown Tindall Manuscript
Scope and Contents
Please note that George Brown Tindall's background as a white, male scholar places him in an imbalanced position of power that unfairly places his views above the Black people he describes in his work. Due to this occuring during the Jim Crow Era, Tindall's background must be taken into account while assessing his portrayal of Black people. This manuscript is the final typescript, with hand-written notations and corrections, of Tindall's book entitled South Carolina Negroes, 1877-1900 (University of South Carolina Press, 1952).
Collation is as follows: introductory material: 19 leaves, variously numbered; text: 356 hand-numbered leaves; footnotes: 75 numbered leaves; bibliography: 20 numbered leaves; index: 30 numbered leaves.
One folder of miscellaneous items includes a sample title page and frontispiece; a rejected title page; publishers' ads; a case binding, and a dust jacket for the book.
Dates
- 1952
Creator
- Tindall, George Brown (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
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Biographical or Historical Information
George B. Tindall was a native of Greenville, South Carolina. He graduated from Furman University in 1942, received his doctoral degree in 1951 from the University of North Carolina, and taught at Eastern Kentucky State College and the University of Mississippi before joining the history faculty at Woman's College (now UNCG) from 1952 to 1954. He published a number of books on the history of the United States and the American South.
Extent
0.42 Linear Feet (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
George Tindall taught history at Woman's College (now UNCG) and published a number of books on the history of the United States and the American South.
This manuscript is the final typescript, with hand-written corrections, of Tindall's book entitled South Carolina Negroes, 1877-1900.
Method of Acquisition
Gift of George Brown Tindall in 1953.
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Processing Information
Processed by Archives Staff Encoded by David Guion, April 2009
- Title
- George Brown Tindall Manuscript
- Author
- Archives Staff
- Date
- 2009
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- eng
Revision Statements
- April 19, 2021: This finding aid underwent changes in Spring 2021 after a reparative archives review. The following link leads to the legacy version of this finding aid: http://library.uncg.edu/info/depts/scua/legacyFA/04.MSS006.legacy.pdf
Repository Details
Part of the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives Repository