In the mid 19 fifties, atlanta was one of the birthplaces of the civil rights movement. Since the pickwick restaurant does not admit black people, the civil rights protesters come. The more strident maddox gets in his weekly adds, the more popular pickwick says becomes. People start buying the atlanta journal on saturday just to read what maddox is up to.
If you disagree with someone — if you find what they think appalling — is there any value in talking to them? In the early 1970s, the talk show host Dick Cavett, the governor of Georgia Lester Maddox, and the singer Randy Newman tried to answer this question.
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