[AnAmericanMother]

I still have my Lester Maddox "Wake Up America" alarm clock.

It's kinda cute. Has Maddox riding his bicycle backwards, with a chicken drumstick for the hour hand and a pick handle for the minute hand. Here's a wristwatch version of the same deal:

Lester Maddox wristwatch

We bought it in Underground Atlanta from Maddox himself. My husband was one of the Tech students who used to torment Lester by appearing at his speeches with the Atlanta Journal and ostentatiously reading it (it used to really hack him off). But after his speech my husband took the paper up and Maddox cheerfully autographed it (he refused to autograph a copy of the Great Speckled Bird however - our local hippie "alternative" mag).

When we saw him in Underground Atlanta years later, he was glad to see us and shook my husband's hand "No hard feelings." All in all a pretty outrageous guy but never bore malice.

[Bonaparte]

Thanks for the link to the Maddox memorabilia. Fascinating. Had no idea the Great Speckled Bird had been around that long. I'm familiar with them -- extreme leftists who are under investigation for internet fraud and tax evasion.