2-832-950 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

The wooden stick has printed type in blue ink that reads: [LESTER MADDOX'S / PICKRICK DRUMSTICK]. A note written to Media Access Project by hand in black ink is featured on one side of the object. Lester Garfield Maddox Sr. refused to serve Black customers in his Atlanta restaurant, the Pickrick, in violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Nevertheless he served as the 75th Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1967 to 1971.