Remembering History: 1964: Lester Maddox with a gun (right) and his son wielding an ax handle (center), “escorting” a Black man trying to eat at his whites-only chicken restaurant Pickrick Cafe, in Georgia. Maddox said that he would close his restaurant rather than serve African Americans. Maddox went on to become the governor of Georgia in 1967.

1964: Lester Maddox with a gun (right) and his son wielding an ax handle (center), “escorting” a Black man trying to eat at his whites-only chicken restaurant Pickrick Cafe, in Georgia. Maddox said that he would close his restaurant rather than serve African Americans. Maddox went on to become the governor of Georgia in 1967.

1964: Lester Maddox with a gun (right) and his son wielding an ax handle (center), “escorting” a Black man trying to eat at his whites-only chicken restaurant Pickrick Cafe, in Georgia. Maddox said that he would close his restaurant rather than serve African Americans. Maddox went on to become the governor of Georgia in 1967.