Word: maddox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Something like 4,000 folks turned out to meet Georgia's Governor Lester Maddox, 51, at an open house at the executive mansion in Atlanta, and everybody was having a real fine howdy when suddenly a Negro lady whispered to Mrs. Maddox: "These four men here are convicts-and one of them is my son." Indeed, the next four guests in the receiving line had just escaped from a prison work camp in Wilkinson County, and they had a lot more to say than just hello. After he'd uncricked his neck from the double take, Maddox...
There are 404 condemned men, duly convicted and now awaiting execution in penitentiaries. One of them, Rapist William Patrick Clark, 29, who said that he wanted to die, was granted a stay by Georgia's Governor Lester Maddox last week, only 49 minutes before his scheduled electrocution. The same day, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling opened the way to a retrial for two Louisiana Negroes who have been awaiting electrocution since 1953 for the rape of a white woman. In Florida, a Federal District Court judge ordered a rare stay of execution for all of the state...
...power speeches by Stokely Carmichael and a few more statements from Martin Luther King comparing the U.S. role in Viet Nam to Hitler's in Europe, Wallace might even improve on that performance. But he has failed to win the expected backing of Georgia's Governor Lester Maddox. Moreover, Wallace's favorite pitches-for states' rights and against integration-may lose some of their punch when voters begin to realize that Alabama gets 75% of its welfare budget from the evil Government in Washington, that 300 Negroes are attending the University of Alabama now that George...
Most of the states affected greeted the order with relative calm. A few politicians denounced it, notably Georgia's Governor Lester Maddox, who called the court's decision "ungodly and un-American...
Dalton said before the vote that he thought Licht had tried to "over-glamorize the Maddox affair into a controversy. It isn't even an issue," he said...