When Lester Maddox became Governor of Georgia. Carl Sanders provided him with a speech writing team that produced a shockingly moderate inaugural address. Ever since, Lester has baffled ...

There was Lester Maddox, happily pouring coffee for 100 Georgia legislators just as if he were back at the Pickrick, his onetime restaurant. Maddox had good reason to be happy —and to pour for ...

but not large enough to avoid a runoff with staunch segregationist Lester Maddox. Two weeks later in the runoff, Maddox startled everybody by defeating Arnall by 70,000 votes. The moderate ...

He lost a bid for governor in 1966 to segregationist Lester Maddox, who was installed by the state Legislature when an independent threw the race into the House. Carter correctly figured that times ...

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 ...