Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lester Maddox is sworn in as governor of Georgia on Jan. 11, 1967. Bettmann/Getty Images In January 1967, after a gubernatorial ...

Click to open image viewer. Lester Maddox (1915-2003) was a restaurant owner in Atlanta with an interest in politics, having first run for mayor in 1957. His restaurant, the Pickrick Cafeteria, ...

ATLANTA (AP) -- Lester Maddox, who was elected one of the last of the South's fist-shaking segregationist governors in 1966 after he and his friends used pick handles and a gun to scare blacks away ...

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - On September 30, 1915, former Georgia Governor Lester Maddox was born. Maddox became the governor of Georgia in 1966, but he has a bit of a complicated political history. As a ...

Optimistic pessimists who believe that regional theater is the nation’s dramatic hope can find some strong supporting evidence in Atlanta. There, a three-year-old shoestring repertory group that calls ...

In January 1967, after a gubernatorial election that saw neither candidate gain enough votes to win, the Georgia Legislature was faced with a vital decision: the selection of the state’s 75th governor ...

In January 1967, after a gubernatorial election that saw neither candidate gain enough votes to win, the Georgia Legislature was faced with a vital decision: the selection of the state’s 75th governor ...