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Lewis: Preserve restaurant that refused to serve blacks

Allen Sullivan / aesullivan@ajc.com

881 Hemphill Avenue on the Georgia Tech campus is the site of the former Pickrick restaurant. Former Georgia Gov. Lester Maddox ran the segregated restaurant. He closed it in 1965 after being told he would have to serve blacks.

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