Word: orangeburg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advisory, the Weather Bureau said the storm's movement had slowed to 12 m.p.h. with its center near Orangeburg, about 75 miles inland from Charleston. The Weather Bureau said its movement was north-northwest, putting Columbia and Charlotte, N.C., in its path...
Economic boycott is a two-way street, and Negro reprisal efforts are by no means limited to the Montgomery bus strike. A persistent report-as persistently denied -that Coca-Cola bottlers had contribut ed to White Citizens' Councils caused a sales drop around Orangeburg, S.C. (where a Coca-Cola machine in a Negro-owned service station carried a sign saying, "This machine has economic pressure. It is dangerous to insert money...
...main highway which runs through the sleepy South Carolina town of Orangeburg are the weathered buildings of the state's Colored Normal, Industrial, Agricultural, and Mechanical College. They are old buildings, belonging for the most part to generations long past. An air of decay pervades the 50-acre, unkempt campus. It is a decay bred from apathy--apathy of the State Legislature, of the board of trustees, of the 1300 or so students who know they are getting an education that is second-rate. It springs from a college president who, though obsequious to the all-white board of trustees...
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...
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...