GEORGE CLAYTON SHAW BIOGRAPHICAL PAPERS, #3938, 1921- 1938
Memoirs, a photograph, and printed materials documenting the life and work of the
African-American Rev. George C. Shaw, founder and longtime president of the Mary Potter
School, a secondary school for African-American children at Oxford, North Carolina. The
collection also records his work as pastor of the Timothy Darling Presbyterian Church; as a
member of the Board of Trustees of Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, North Carolina; as
chairman of the Board of Trustees of Oxford Colored Orphanage; as treasurer of the Teachers'
Colored Association; and as a member of the Colored Masonic lodge and other fraternal
organizations. Microfilm available.
