[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.
