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 ...

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 ...

Lester Maddox, the restaurateur who became a symbol of segregationist defiance and then Georgia governor in a fluke election, died Wednesday in an Atlanta hospice, family members said. He was 87.

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 ...

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 ...

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 blacks away ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) David Cason, University of North Dakota (THE CONVERSATION) In January 1967, after a ...