Word: mcmillan
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...McMillan especially condemns the system under which his own institution was run. No Negro has a real voice in the administration of State College. It is governed by a six man, all-white board of trustees, drawn from business and professional men of the Orangeburg region. The board is all-powerful, but it leaves routine decisions to the college president, Benner C. Turner. When Turner was selected in 1950, the trustees asked each candidate two questions...
Turner Summons McMillan...
According to McMillan, Turner said, "Now, Doctor, the policy of the administration--that is, of the president--is to forbid any member of the staff to vilify the College or any sister institution in the State. If your book is of such a character, your case will be brought before the Trustee Board for action. Remember, now, Doctor McMillan, that you have a good job here at the College...
...effect, Turner placed burning the book as the minimum price for McMillan to be retained...
Three months passed, and Turner said nothing more about the book. Then, in May, one of the College janitors told McMillan that he had heard the professor had been dismissed. A cook for a local white family said she had heard a similar rumor...