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Bookmark or Share- Lester Maddox - Today In Georgia HistoryMaddox unsuccessfully ran for office three times before elected governor. His image as a violent racist repelled many voters. But his outspoken opposition to civil rights boosted his popularity statewide, and he won the 1966 election.
- Lester Maddox, Whites-Only Restaurateur and Georgia Governor ...Lester Maddox, the Atlanta restaurant owner and archsegregationist who adopted the pick handle as his symbol of defiance in a successful bid for the Georgia governorship in 1966, died on...
- Maddox, Lester, 1915-2003 - Civil Rights Digital Library - USGMaddox faced his third defeat in 1962, after running for lieutenant governor. Although it was not successful, the campaign made him a well known figure in Georgia.
- Lester Maddox, former governor of Georgia, dies – Deseret NewsLester 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 blacks away from his fried-chicken restaurant, died Wednesday at 87.
- Lester Maddox - New Georgia EncyclopediaThe tumultuous political and social change in Georgia during the 1960s yielded perhaps the state’s most unlikely governor, Lester Maddox. Brought to office in 1966 by widespread dissatisfaction with desegregation, Maddox surprised many by serving as an able, though unquestionably colorful, chief executive.
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