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Lester Maddox Announces He Will Serve Negroes: Atlanta restaurant operator and arch segregationist Lester Maddox and his wife weep as he announces he will serve Negroes. His customers also wept. Federal Judge Frank Hooper yesterday ordered Maddox to pay a $200 fine each day his restaurant was open and practiced racial discrimination. He said he was not surrendering "but only accepting that which is being forced upon us.", February 6, 1965
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Lester Maddox Announces He Will Serve Negroes: Atlanta restaurant operator and arch segregationist Lester Maddox and his wife weep as he announces he will serve Negroes. His customers also wept. Federal Judge Frank Hooper yesterday ordered Maddox to pay a $200 fine each day his restaurant was open and practiced racial discrimination. He said he was not surrendering "but only accepting that which is being forced upon us.", February 6, 1965, result 1 of 1

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Lester Maddox Announces He Will Serve Negroes: Atlanta restaurant operator and arch segregationist Lester Maddox and his wife weep as he announces he will serve Negroes. His customers also wept. Federal Judge Frank Hooper yesterday ordered Maddox to pay a $200 fine each day his restaurant was open and practiced racial discrimination. He said he was not surrendering "but only accepting that which is being forced upon us.", February 6, 1965
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1965
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Associated Press wire photo
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LUF 2019 1555
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