- Collection:
- Boyd Lewis Photographs
- Title:
- Lester Maddox restaurant
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-2023
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center
- Date of Original:
- 1976-05-20
2019 - Subject:
- Restaurants--Georgia--Atlanta
African Americans--1970-1980
Cooks--Georgia--Atlanta
Pickrick (Atlanta, Ga.)
Lester Maddox Cafeteria - People:
- Maddox, Lester G., 1915-2003
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- black-and-white negatives
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of former Georgia Governor Lester Maddox and one of his employees in the kitchen on the last day of operations at his Pickrick restaurant located in downtown Atlanta, Georgia
Lester Garfield Maddox, Sr. (1915-2003) was a politician and businessman from Atlanta. He served as Governor of Georgia from 1967-1971, and as Lieutenant Governor from 1971-1975. He ran several unsuccessful gubernatorial races beginning in 1974. He also ran unsuccessfully in two Atlanta mayoral races in 1957 and 1961. Maddox was the owner of the Pickrick Cafeteria, and gained national notoriety and recognition when he refused to integrate the restaurant. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/byd/id/3491
- IIIF manifest:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/iiif/2/byd:3491/manifest.json
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright is held by Boyd Lewis. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons, Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivsCC BY-NC-ND license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Original Collection:
- Boyd Lewis photographs
MSS 1118, Southwind recordings, Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center - Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
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