Mar 01, 2012 - Sale 2271

Sale 2271 - Lot 263

Price Realized: $ 360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(CIVIL RIGHTS.) MADDOX, LESTER. For Freedom of Choice, Vote Maddox. Red white and blue poster printed on stiff cardboard stock. [Atlanta, 1966]
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Lester Maddox (1915-1993), was the Atlanta restaurant owner and arch-segregationist adopted the pick handle as his symbol of defiance in a successful bid for the Georgia governorship in 1966. Maddox first came to national attention in 1964, after he violated the newly-signed federal Civil Rights Act by refusing to serve three black Georgia Tech students at his Pickrick Restaurant. The Pickrick was noted for the quality of its fried chicken, its reasonable prices and its "whites only" policy.