Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lester Maddox is sworn in as governor of Georgia on Jan. 11, 1967. Bettmann/Getty Images In January 1967, after a gubernatorial ...

Lester Maddox, Georgia’s segregationist governor, despised Martin Luther King Jr. He once called King “an enemy of our country” and bragged that he’d been elected despite King and the growing power of ...

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - On September 30, 1915, former Georgia Governor Lester Maddox was born. Maddox became the governor of Georgia in 1966, but he has a bit of a complicated political history. As a ...

Powerful friends, one-time enemies and those Lester Maddox admiringly called the "little people" filed through the Capitol rotunda Friday to say goodbye to the former Georgia governor, who died this ...

ATLANTA — Some state lawmakers say they will pitch renaming a well-traveled Interstate 75 bridge near Truist Park for Hank Aaron. Even backers of the measure to honor Hank Aaron say it will be a heavy ...

In July 1964, Georgia restaurateur Lester Maddox violated the newly passed Civil Rights Act by refusing to serve three Black Georgia Tech students at his Pickrick Restaurant in Atlanta. Although this ...

A Cobb County legislator will seek another way to honor the Atlanta Braves legend who shattered baseball records and color barriers. State Rep. Teri Anulewicz, a Democrat representing Smyrna, ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Lester Maddox (1915-2003) was a restaurant owner in Atlanta with an interest in politics, having first run for mayor ...

Maddox grew up poor around the Georgia Tech campus and opened his Pickrick Cafeteria in 1947. The restaurant was known for its fried chicken and the owner’s defiant opposition to racial integration.

Trembling with rage, balding, bespectacled Atlanta Restaurateur Lester Maddox stood in the doorway of his Pickrick fried-chicken spot one day last week and screamed at two Negroes: “You no-good dirty ...

In January 1967, after a gubernatorial election that saw neither candidate gain enough votes to win, the Georgia Legislature was faced with a vital decision: the selection of the state’s 75th governor ...