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Brunswick News
April 27, 2018
Gov. Lester Maddox, back in the area on the convention speaking circuit, continued tubthumping on what, for him, became familiar themes. ... The News reported, “The governor cited the passage of the 1968 Open Housing Bill as 'a death blow' to the right of a citizen 'to have, hold and enjoy private propertyÃâà...
Splinter (blog)
April 12, 2018
It's a relic of Georgia's Lester Maddox regime, an era in the late 1960s and early '70s when Maddox was governor, and well-known for campaigning via .... “If there is segregation, it is a choice issue,” Powell said on the phone, adding to the oft-cited defense that government officials can't dictate whereÃâà...
The Atlantic
April 9, 2018
Not only did the 11-person commission abound with the most conventional of politicians—including its chairman, Illinois Governor Otto Kerner—but a mere two of ... Whereas Brooke called Carmichael and the arch-segregationist Lester Maddox “extremists of black power and white power,” Wilkins termedÃâà...
MyAJC
April 9, 2018
While the governor in 1968, Lester Maddox, fumed about the funeral procession and turned the Capitol into an armed camp, the governor of 50 years later had a much different response. “I know that many of you, as I, remember where you were 50 years ago,” said Gov. Nathan Deal, as he welcomed theÃâà...
Fast Company
April 2, 2018
Attracting fans from the far right and simply the curious, their messages condemned prominent politicians and federal programs, warned of gun control conspiracies, and even propagated racial hatred. Some messages warned that the Peace Corps is “an anti-American brainwashing operation” andÃâà...
Barrow Journal
March 31, 2018
The Democratic primary that year featured Miller, who had been lieutenant governor for what seemed like an eternity, civil rights icon Andrew Young, lawyer Roy Barnes (in his first statewide campaign), state Rep. Lauren “Bubba” McDonald and former controversial governor Lester Maddox. Miller was theÃâà...
New York Magazine
March 23, 2018
Early on Miller ran twice for Congress in his native North Georgia mountains as an opponent of civil-rights legislation (a posture for which he later apologized), and then served as chief of staff for the state's infamous segregationist governor Lester Maddox. But by 1974, Miller had managed to reframeÃâà...
MyAJC
November 26, 2017
Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen and Gov. Lester Maddox were poisonous rivals ever since Allen beat Maddox, then a firebrand restaurateur, for the city's top job in 1961. But rarely did the business-friendly mayor and segregationist governor contrast more sharply than during the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1968Ãâà...
MyAJC
September 15, 2017
He served as a top aide to one governor, Lester Maddox, and was a mentor to another, Zell Miller. Irvin departed ... Irvin served four years in the state Legislature, ran the late Gov. Lester Maddox's gubernatorial campaign and was Maddox's floor leader in the House, then his executive secretary. Irvin was aÃâà...
Shelby Star
December 31, 1999
Both in the forefront as possible democratic presidential nominees for 1932, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York and Gov. .... Segregationist Lester Maddox, center, who closed his restaurant rather than serve black customers, leads thousands of people on a march through downtown Atlanta, Ga.,Ãâà...
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