WINFIELD HENRI MIXON PAPERS. 10 items and 7 volumes
Papers of Winfield Mixon, official with the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and the
organizer of an 1895 African-American women's conference in Nashville, Tennessee. In addition
to scattered clippings concerning the conference, the collection includes travel journals
kept sporadically from 1895 to 1915 that contain the names of community members Mixon worked
and lodged with as he carried out his duties as a church elder. Papers contain scattered
references to Masonry and Payne University in Selma, Alabama.