A crass businessman, Maddox called his axe handles “Pickrick Drumsticks,” which he also sold for US$2 apiece. Such brazen behavior earned Maddox the admiration of many white Georgians uneasy ...

Tifton -- Former Georgia Governor Lester Maddox died Wednesday morning at age 87. Maddox gained national notoriety for chasing blacks from his Pickrick Restaurant in Atlanta with an axe handle ...

The old-line segregationists who were talking up Callaway during the summer are now deserting the Republican camp for Maddox, who gained fame several years ago when he sold axe-handle "drumsticks ...

Lester Maddox, a Georgia restaurateur who drove blacks from his business with crowds wielding ax handles and parlayed the resulting fame into political power, becoming in 1967 the state’s last ...

ATLANTA (AP) -- Lester Maddox, who was elected one of the last of the South's fist-shaking segregationist governors in 1966 after he and his friends used pick handles and a ...

Lester Maddox autographs one of the axe handles that he sold for $2 in 1964. Bettmann/Getty Images. When a Georgia court ordered Maddox to obey the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Maddox chose to shut ...