Word: pickrick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though Lester Maddox refused to serve Negroes his fried chicken, he makes no bones about soliciting their patronage at the polls. A noisy racist who shuttered his Atlanta Pickrick Restaurant in 1964 rather than accept an integrated clientele, Maddox won the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in an upset runoff victory over former Governor Ellis Arnall, a racial moderate. Republicans thought that Maddox would be the less formidable candidate against their man, Congressman Howard ("Bo") Callaway...
...calculated would be easiest to defeat is now far ahead. The old-line segregationists who were talking up Callaway during the summer are now deserting the Republican camp for Maddox, who gained fame several years ago when he sold axe-handle "drumsticks" to beat Negroes away from his segregated Pickrick Restaurant...
...opened his campaign in October with a speech blasting the Sanders administration, stated a week later that he would "continue the honest administration of Carl Sanders and Ernie Vandiver," in a flagrant move to gain moderate votes. But moderates still believe that Bo is just a Lester without a Pickrick stick...
...Pickrick Drumsticks. Democratic strategists made no secret of their fear that the outbursts could help trim their majorities in November. "If the rioting doesn't fade away-indeed, if there's renewed violence in the streets-it will hurt us," declared Vice President Hubert Humphrey as he stumped California and three other Western states. Just how much it might hurt Democratic prospects was demonstrated on the other side of the continent the same day. In Georgia, moderate former Governor Ellis Arnall entered a runoff for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination as a heavy favorite against Lester Maddox, a strident...
Since his 211,000 votes did not constitute a clear majority, Arnall faces a runoff on Sept. 28 against Atlanta's Lester Maddox, 50, who became a martyr to the segregationist cause by closing down his Pickrick restaurant in Atlanta rather than obey the 1964 civil rights law barring racial discrimination in public accommodations. Maddox drew 166,000 votes in an unexpectedly close struggle for second place with State...