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Integration Resistance at Pickrick

April, 1964

Event Details

Date: April, 1964
Summary: Similar attempts at integration are met with resistance at the Pickrick restaurant, owned by Lester Maddox. Black and White integrators are turned away.

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“ The owner and his Black employees ushered them out, informing the protesters that the restaurant’s minority labor‐ ers would lose their jobs if the Pickrick ever integrated. Maddox would close it down before that happened. The same scene had played out in April 1964. ”

Greene, Ronnie. Heart of Atlanta: Five Black Pastors and the Supreme Court Victory for Integration (pp. 86). Chicago Review Press. Kindle Edition.

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