Arthenia Bates Millican Honors & Recognitions

  • Awarded a Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), 1976.
  • South Carolina Library at the University of South Carolina established an Arthenia J. Bates Millican File in 1992.
  • Named 1981 Distinguished Alumni by Morris College, May 1981.
  • Sumter County Historical Society maintains a collection of her donated works, established January 1982.
  • The James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro Arts and Letters in the Beinecke Library at Yale University maintain manuscripts, typescripts, and first edition copies of Dr. Millican's work.
  • Featured in Outstanding Educators of America, 1973.
  • Featured in Personalities of the South, 1975.
  • Featured in Contemporary Authors,1975.
  • Featured in Dictionary of International Biography, 1975.
  • Named in Who's Who in America, and Who's Who in American Women, 1966.
  • Featured in The World Who's Who of Women, 1975.

Featured Work

The Deity Nodded


The Deity Nodded is the account of a lonely soul searching for God-a deity who is awake to the needs of his black children…
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News & Events

Coming Soon:

Second Annual Millican Literary Festival
Amira Baraka, Jerry Ward, and Marjory Wentworth to Headline Events
February 12 and 13, 2010
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