![]() ![]() Signed "Good luck to Ray/Lester Maddox 1-25-75". Lester Maddox's Pickrick Drumstick from his 1966 political campaign for Governor of Georgia. Next to the printing is the signature in black ink. The wooden axe handle has printed type in blue ink that reads. Description A Pickrick Drumstick signed by Lester Maddox. Maddox sold his restaurant in 1965 and entered Georgia politics full time, serving as governor (1967-1971) and then lieutenant governor (1971-75). The image became a favorite of segregationists and Maddox took to selling axe handles and other "state’s rights" souvenirs, a practice he continued from 1964 to at least the late 1980s. ![]() After passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawing segregation in public accommodations, Maddox continued to refuse to serve African Americans, running an initial group of protestors off with a pistol while his son and some customers and employees brandished the axe handles. His restaurant, the Pickrick Cafeteria, featured a dozen axe handles ("Pickrick Drumsticks," he called them) displayed by the front door. (91.4 x 5.1 x 7.6 cm) Caption Lester Maddox (1915-2003) was a restaurant owner in Atlanta with an interest in politics, having first run for mayor in 1957. 1975 Medium wood Dimensions 36 x 2 x 3 in. On View Segregation Gallery Museum Maps Objects in this Location Exhibition Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom: The Era of Segregation, 1876-1968 Created by Maddox, Lester, American, 1915 - 2003 Date ca. ![]()
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