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Title	[Photograph of Enola Mixon with Rev. Jessie Jackson]
Date	Undated
Creator (individual)	Mixon, Enola C.
Subject headings	Greensboro (N.C.) -- History -- 20th century
Topics	People
Place	Greensboro (N.C.)
Description	This undated photograph shows Enola Mixon with the Reverend Jackson, probably in Greensboro. Reverend Jackson was student body president of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University during the 1963 Civil Rights protests in Greensboro.
Type	Image
Original format	photographs
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Contributing institution	Personal collection
Source collection	CC008 Enola C. Mixon Collection [Personal Collection]
Collection description	Enola Mixon had a long career with the United States Postal Service. She was the first woman in the country to serve as a director of employee and labor relations at the Greensboro post office. Between 1984 and 1991 she served as the first female acting postmaster in Burlington and Winston-Salem. She was named Greensboro's first female postmaster in 1992. She retired from the Postal Service in June 2004. Mixon was awarded the Dorothy Sharple Lifetime Achievement Award by the United States Postal Service for her community service, and her efforts in the post office toward increasing diversity within the postal system. Throughout her career in Greensboro, and elsewhere, she was actively involved in community service work . On loan from contributor. UNCG does not hold a physical copy of this item.
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the contributing institution for permission to reuse.
Object ID	CC008.020
Digital access format	Image/jpeg
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5305 -- http://library.uncg.edu/
Sponsor	Institute of Museum and Library Services Sparks! Ignition Grants For Libraries: http://www.imls.gov/applicants/detail.aspx?GrantId=19
OCLC number	925376089

[Photograph of Enola Mixon with Rev. Jessie Jackson]

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