Word: maddox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Licht, had proposed active opposition to Mrs. Louise Day Hicks, advocate of de facto segregation in the Boston schools, in School Committee elections this fall. In addition he had described an Executive Council disagreement over the question of inviting Georgia's segregationist governor Lester Maddox to speak to the club...
...speech last night, Licht complained that the Executive Committee had "turned a deaf ear" to the wishes of the general membership when it refused to invite Maddox. He wanted to invite Maddox; Dalton refused to discuss the merits of individual speakers...
Cold Party. During his Senate campaign, Brooke responded to the exaggerated threat of white backlash by taking the unusual step?for him?of raising the racial issue. He condemned both Stokely Carmichael and Georgia's Lester Maddox as "extremists of black power and white power." Brooke swamped Chub Peabody by 1,213,473 to 744,761 votes and took the Senate seat occupied for 22 years by Brahmin Leverett Saltonstall...
...next morning to a visiting delegation of Junior Chamber of Commerce officials. After attending the annual presidential prayer breakfast, at which he confessed that "none of us can ever be certain that we are right," Johnson found time for his first meeting with Georgia's Democratic Governor Lester Maddox, who as a segregationist restaurateur had picketed the White House in 1965. Allowed Maddox after his ten-minute private chat with L.B.J.: "The country is big enough...
Among ten legislators abstaining from the vote on Maddox was Julian Bond, 26, the bright, outspoken Negro who finally gained his seat in the State House of Representatives after twice being deprived of it because of his public advocacy of draft-card burning. The U.S. Supreme Court had ruled that Bond must be seated and, along with ten other Negroes, he took his place in the Georgia legislature. "I don't think," philosophized Bond, "most members of the house care at this point whether I'm here or not-and that's the attitude I want them...