Francis Butler Simkins
Francis Butler Simkins (December 14, 1897 – February 8, 1966) was a historian and president of the
Southern Historical Association. He is best known for his highly praised history of the
Reconstruction Era in South Carolina, that gave fair coverage to all sides, and for his widely used textbook ''The South, Old and New'' (1947) and his monographs on South Carolina history. He was a professor at
Longwood College in Virginia, Simkins was a leading progressive in the 1920s and 1930s regarding race relations but became a defender of segregation in the 1950s and 1960s.
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