After Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Georgia protested desegregation by electing Lester Maddox as governor. Maddox, a staunch supporter of racial segregation, resisted integration in the state as much as possible. Despite his support for segregation, he appointed more African Americans to government positions than all previous Georgia governors combined, including the first black officer in the Georgia State Patrol and the first black official to the state Board of Corrections.

So, was Lester Maddox Georgia's most racist governor?

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