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PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973

THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S

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Did not allow African Americans to eat at his cafeteria 2.Actually refused to serve anyone who suggested integration was a good thing 3.At one point, he was Governor, then later Lt. Governor4.Placed more African Americans in positions of political power in GA’s Government than any other Governor (more than all Governors, combined)Who do these statements describe?
A
Ivan Allen, Jr
B
Herman Talmadge
C
Eugene Tamadge
D
Lester Maddox
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Lester Garfield Maddox Sr. A populist Southern Democrat, Maddox came to prominence as a staunch segregationist when he refused to serve black customers in his Atlanta restaurant, the Pickrick, in violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He later served as a lieutenant governor under Jimmy Carter.

Detailed explanation-2: -World War II spurred a new militancy among African Americans. The NAACP-emboldened by the record of black servicemen in the war, a new corps of brilliant young lawyers, and steady financial support from white philanthropists-initiated major attacks against discrimination and segregation, even in the Jim Crow South.

Detailed explanation-3: -In April 1964, several African Americans tried to enter the restaurant and were threatened off the property by Maddox with “Pickrick drumsticks, ” a euphemism for wooden axe handles.

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