The story
The fried-chicken cafeteria where Lester Maddox brandished an axe handle to bar Black customers, then rode the notoriety to the governor's mansion.
Everything that was here
- 1947–1965
Pickrick RestaurantRestaurant
The fried-chicken cafeteria where Lester Maddox brandished an axe handle to bar Black customers, then rode the notoriety to the governor's mansion.
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