Grand Old Partisan honors Minnie Cox, born in Mississippi this day of 1869. She taught school after graduating from Fisk University. She also was a Republican Party activist.
In 1891, President Benjamin Harrison appointed Cox postmaster at Indianola. President William McKinley upgraded her position's status from fourth to third class, along with a salary increase. She earned a reputation for efficiency.
During the Theodore Roosevelt administration, racist Democrats threatened to kill her. A nasty Democrat newspaper editor, who would later be elected Governor and Senator, said the community should not have to tolerate "a negro wench as postmaster." Rather than accept Cox's resignation, the President closed the Indianola post office until her term expired.
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