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...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...
...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...
That was not good enough for Maddox. "It's involuntary servitude!" he cried. "We will never integrate!" At the Pickrick's entrance he placed a box of red-painted ax handles marked "Souvenir-Or Otherwise-$2" for white customers who wanted to help keep his fried chicken inviolate. Near by he also placed a dummy with a knife in its back and red paint smeared over it, explained that this symbolized the "American free-enterprise system, states' rights and freedom," which were now "stabbed, bleeding and dying...
Defiant to the end, Maddox strapped a snub-nosed pistol to his side, rushed up to the door when Negroes appeared. When a U.S. district court ordered him to show cause why he should not be cited for contempt, Maddox caved in and closed the Pickrick. "The President, the Congress and the Communists have closed my business and ended my childhood dream," he said. "Not me. They...