Caption for Lester Maddox Escorts Albert Dunn from the Parking Lot of His Pickrick Restaurant, Atlanta

Verso of photograph with caption, stamps, and editorial notations.

Horace Cort (American, active 1940s–1970s), Lester Maddox Escorts Albert Dunn from the Parking Lot of His Pickrick Restaurant, Atlanta, July 3, 1964, gelatin silver print, 9 1/8 × 11 3/8 inches, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, purchase with funds from Sandra Anderson Baccus in loving memory of Lloyd Tevis Baccus, M.D., 2007.99. © Horace Cort and Associated Press/Wide World Photos.

Transcribed caption, verso: “(AX2) ATLANTA, July 3–UNSUCCESSFUL INTEGRATION ATTEMPT–Restaurant operator Lester Maddox, right, brandishes a small pistol as he and an unidentified youth armed with an ax handle chase a Negro from the parking lot of Maddox’ eating establishment in Atlanta today. The Negro was one of three who attempted to integrate the restaurant of the long time segregationist who vowed he would go to jail before serving Negroes. (AP Wirephoto) (JL61845stf-hc) See AP Wire Story 1964”