The 1966 winner, Lester Maddox, was an unabashed racist who handed out axe handles to voters — which he, as a businessman, had used to chase blacks out of his restaurant. Sanders and Murphy ...

Carter had lost his first run for governor of Georgia, in 1966, to the arch-segregationist Lester Maddox, and in his second attempt he had been careful to say as little as possible about race ...

Running for governor in 1966, Carter positioned himself as a racial moderate, saying he ran to block white supremacist Lester Maddox. But when Carter finished a close third in the primary ...

running in a field that included Lester Maddox. Maddox, a segregationist, had risen to infamy in 1964 when he violated the recently passed Civil Rights Act and refused to serve Black students at ...

“He was cool under pressure and didn’t back away from a war of words.” Segregationist politician Lester Maddox walked off one show. Feminist actress Lily Tomlin walked off another. In the ...

Dyed-in-the-wool segregationist Georgia Gov. Lester Maddox was not happy. He raged, “I don’t see how this fight could take place anywhere in the United States of America” and proclaimed ...

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter sing with Martin Luther King Sr., Coretta Scott King, Andrew Young and other civil rights leaders during a visit to Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta on Jan 14, 1979.