Lester Maddox
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Lester Garfield Maddox Sr. was an American politician who served as the 75th governor of Georgia from 1967 to 1971.
Maddox in 1967
Marker at the spot of the Pickrick at Georgia Tech
The 1966 Georgia gubernatorial election was held in the U.S. state on November 8, 1966. After an election that exposed divisions within the Georgia Democratic Party, segregationist Democrat Lester Mad
Lester Maddox
…African-American customers in his Atlanta restaurant, the Pickrick, in violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He was soon after elected governor in 1966. Ineligible to run for a second consecutive term in 1970, he sought and won election as lieutenant governor instead, serving alongside his successor…
Lester Maddox
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