Legislators chose the candidate who earned the least number of votes and was an ardent segregationist – Democrat Lester Maddox, owner of a chicken restaurant and a perennial candidate.

Georgia elections used to have a winner-take-all approach, but in the segregated South - the Black vote didn't hold much ...

When Lester Maddox became Governor of Georgia. Carl Sanders provided him with a speech writing team that produced a shockingly moderate inaugural address. Ever since, Lester has baffled ...

The baby boy, named John N., is adopted by the Fails. The Fail parents, Marietta (Naomi Rukin) and Henry (Maddox Lester), died in a car accident when their car plunged into the Chicago River on July ...

Lester Maddox: I'm not going to integrate! (crowd shouting) Alter: He lost to a segregationist, Lester Maddox. Lester Maddox: This is a great victory for the people of Georgia. Alter: At that ...

To Democrat Weltner, 38, the victory of White Supremacist Lester Maddox in Georgia’s Democratic runoff primary last month signaled a crushing setback for racial moderation—and for the South.

Though Lester Maddox refused to serve Negroes his fried chicken, he makes no bones about soliciting their patronage at the polls. A noisy racist who shuttered his Atlanta Pickrick Restaurant in ...

Throughout history, despite what it confronted, America has had leaders emerge whose words and actions helped shape its ...

The man who will carry the barer of the Democratic Party -- or party of it anyway -- is not a racist in the sense of Jim Johnson of Arkansas or Lester Maddox of Georgia -- both primary victors ...

There’s Lester Maddox, once the governor of Georgia, who used to chase Black customers away from his family store with an axe handle, and George Wallace, of Alabama, and Orval Faubus ...

Quarterbacks: Max Lyall, Dresden Tri-Valley, 6-2, 215, Sr.; Aiden Davis, Steubenville, 6-0, 170, Sr.; Jack Judkins, Dover, ...

Ayden Lester knew the challenge facing Farmington after Morrilton scored with 1:48 left in Friday's game to take a 75-71 lead ...