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4 days ago · When he narrowly missed the Democratic runoff, Carter opted not to endorse a fellow racial moderate who had advanced, despite their shared distaste for the other contender: Lester Maddox, an ...
3 days ago · Jimmy Carter emerged from the misfortune which was Lester Maddox — quoting Randy Newman’s “Rednecks”: “Last night I saw Lester Maddox on a TV show with some smart-ass New York Jew. And the Jew laughed at Lester Maddox. And the audience laughed at Lester Maddox too. Well, he may be a ...
Sep 25, 2024 · He first ran for governor in 1966, dissatisfied with the General Assembly. When he narrowly missed the Democratic runoff, Carter opted not to endorse a fellow racial moderate who had advanced, despite their shared distaste for the other contender: Lester Maddox, an avowed white supremacist. Maddox won.
3 days ago · The longest-serving governors are George Busbee, Joe Frank Harris, Zell Miller, Sonny Perdue and Nathan Deal, each of whom served two full four-year terms; Joseph E. Brown, governor during the Civil War, was elected four times, serving seven and a half years.
6 days ago · He would lose the primary to Lester Maddox, a fellow Democrat at a time when Georgia was a one-party state. It was the blessing of good timing. Maddox, a staunch segregationist, ...
4 days ago · And to see Georgia people support [arch-segregationist] Lester Maddox and [Goldwater Republican] Bo Calloway in preference to me was hard for me to understand, which shows a lot about my ego in ...
Sep 12, 2024 · ATLANTA (AP) -- Lester Maddox, who was elected one of the last of the South's fist-shaking segregationist governors in 1966 after he and his friends used pick handles and a gun to scare...
Sep 10, 2024 · That evening, the guest was Lester Maddox, then the governor of the state of Georgia, who’d come to political prominence as a strict segregationist. The former owner of a grill restaurant, he’d refused to serve Black customers, in violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1965, and he’d used the notoriety the incident gave him as a ...
Sep 6, 2024 · Lester Maddox, future governor of Georgia, ran advertisements in The Atlanta Constitution for his Pickrick restaurant. "Pickrick Says" ads often included Maddox's political commentary.
Sep 20, 2024 · On the way it passed the state capitol, inside of which Georgia’s segregationist governor, Lester Maddox, was holed up, surrounded by armed troops whom he had deployed because of the fear that the funeral would engender violence.
