Word: maddox
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Signs of the uneasy new mood were everywhere last week. The South's most segregationist Governors were so emboldened that Georgia's Lester Maddox felt free to flaunt his racism in the restaurant of the U.S. House of Representatives. He passed out replicas of the ax handles he had used to bar blacks from his Pickrick Chicken House in Atlanta; when challenged by Michigan's Representative Charles C. Diggs Jr., he accused the black Congressman of acting like "an ass and baboon." Alabama's George Wallace announced that he was once more running for Governor "to get our schools back...
...Persecution. The cumulative psychological impact of the measures, however, plus the firing of Panetta, delighted segregationists. "The lamp of liberty shines brighter," triumphantly announced Mississippi's Governor John Bell Williams. Echoed Georgia's Lester Maddox: "I'm really thrilled by this." Replied the Urban League's Whitney Young: "We are in the throes of a systematic destruction of all the gains made in the 1960s." There was a sense that a new corner had been turned, that a different standard of ethics was operating, that the new trend would continue. Tallahassee's Judge G. Harrold...
...leaders in the Carolinas have adjusted realistically to the inevitable and have reasoned responsibly with segregationists in their states. But Governors in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Florida are scoring easy and dangerous political points by stirring up all of the anti-integration forces. Georgia's Governor Lester Maddox even told schoolchildren not to get on buses that would take them to integrated schools and that "somebody ought to let the air out of them [the tires] and steal them [the buses]." He and Louisiana's John McKeithen, Alabama's Albert Brewer and Mississippi's John...
...Before we send a representative we want to be sure that the majority of House members consider the disciplinary body to be legitimate." Edward Maddox '71, a Quincy House committee member, said last night...
Kirk Jr.'s flat announcement that his state was "financially and physically unable" to meet the deadline, to Lester Maddox's threat to enlist other Georgians for a march on Washington...