Mar 10, 2011 - Sale 2239

Sale 2239 - Lot 242

Price Realized: $ 540
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(CIVIL RIGHTS.) MADDOX, LESTER. This is Maddox Country. Poster, 11x14 inches, some wear and creasing.
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Lester Garfield Maddox (1915-2003) governor of Georgia, staunch states' rights advocate, and segregationist. This poster was distributed during Maddox's run for the governor's mansion in 1966. As governor in 1968, Maddox endorsed George Wallace for president on the American Independent Party ticket. And, following Martin Luther King Jr's assassination, Maddox refused to allow his body to lie in state in the state capital.