Word: maddox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brooke himself has not emphasized racial issues in previous campaigns. Yet, though his Democratic opponent, former Governor Endicott Peabody, 46, is an ardent civil rights advocate, Brooke has seen his early lead threatened by anti-Negro reaction, and of late has denounced both Stokely Carmichael and Lester Maddox as "the extremists of black power and white power...
...Georgia, the first published gubernatorial poll reported Republican Howard ("Bo") Callaway ahead of Democrat Lester Maddox, 42%to 34% , with 24% undecided...
...Democrat Weltner, 38, the victory of White Supremacist Lester Maddox in Georgia's Democratic runoff primary last month signaled a crushing setback for racial moderation-and for the South. Rather than support Maddox for Governor in the November election, Weltner last week jettisoned his promising career in Congress...
...beliefs. And while I cannot violate my oath, neither can I violate my principles. I cannot compromise with hate." Atlanta's Democratic county committee nominated in Weltner's place an old-line local politician, Real Estate Man Archie Lindsey, 55, who announced that he would support Maddox...
...Time to Fight." Weltner's opponents charged that he had good reason to resign. Until two weeks ago, he had been easily favored over his Republican challenger, Fletcher Thompson, 41, a handsome but undistinguished state senator. However, Maddox's victory raised the possibility that Atlanta's Negroes and white moderates-the bulk of Weltner's support-would go fishing on election day. Close friends of Weltner's insisted nonetheless that had it not been for the moral issue, he would have stayed in the race, whatever the odds...