Word: runoff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will happen, much less how long it will take the Supreme Court to make up its mind. Because each possible decision favors one candidate or another, the Court risks charges or judicial involvement in party politics by reviewing the case. Maddox wants the legislature to vote, Callaway wants a runoff, and the moderates want a new election...
...petitioned Atlanta's federal district court to uphold the legislature's right to name the Governor. The American Civil Liberties Union filed two suits in the same court to void the anachronistic constitutional provision and order a new election. Callaway supporters asked the court to order a runoff between Callaway and Maddox, with write-ins barred. Yet another petition, brought by pro-Arnall forces, sought to permit write...
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...
...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...
Confronted by the runoff, Arnall told his top lieutenants that he had to save money for the fight against Callaway, rather than spend lavishly to beat Maddox, His consequent failure to provide funds for the transportation of Negro voters was partly responsible for the disappointing Negro turnout...