Word: maddox
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Southern states moved toward moderation on the race issue. Georgia replaced Lester Maddox with another Democrat, Jimmy Carter, a wealthy peanut farmer; South Carolinians chose Democratic Lieutenant Governor John West-a lawyer and, like Florida's Askew, a staunch Presbyterian-rather than Republican Representative Albert Watson, a racist with strong backing from Strom Thurmond and Spiro Agnew. Said one relieved voter: "South Carolina has moved from the Deep South to the upper South...
...ring and I hear the bell." The bell finally sounded in Atlanta, a city that one member of the black-and-white group of promoters described as "too busy to hate." In sanctioning the bout, Mayor Sam Massell termed it a "demonstration of democracy." Georgia Governor Lester Maddox called it a travesty. Said he: "I hope he gets beat in the first round by the count of 30." Unable to block the bout legally, Maddox proclaimed a day of mourning...
...Edward Maddox '71 said that he doubted that a student-Faculty body would be able to judge impartially...
During a political journey to Georgia last week, where the President encountered Governor Lester Maddox, greeted black schoolchildren and pressed the flesh in behalf of Hal Suit, the Republican candidate for Governor, Nixon repeatedly paid tribute to backers of his plan in both parties. "It was a bipartisan speech," he proclaimed. "There was no partisanship in it. When people are working for peace, there are no politics in it." The Senate quickly and unanimously voted a resolution of support. Even though a lone irate Republican in Congress telephoned Henry Kissinger to complain that Nixon should have saved the speech until...
...political maneuvering, many white Southerners are now prepared to compromise and try integrated education. Basic attitudes toward blacks may have changed little, but pragmatic considerations are overshadowing them. Thus the few Southern leaders who continue to rant racism get less of a hearing than before. Georgia Governor Lester Maddox, for example, denounced the "Gestapo" from Washington and urged parents to ignore their children's transfers to desegregated schools. He got some followers in Stockbridge, but authorities there insisted that the children attend their assigned schools. Attempted white boycotts in Augusta, Ga., and Richmond, Va., failed...