The Southern General
Chapter Two of "The Walls of Jericho: Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Richard Russell, and the Struggle for Civil Rights."
Chapter Two
The Southern General
MORE THAN SIX HUNDRED miles southeast of Philadelphia, U.S. Senator Richard Brevard Russell followed the convention with detached interest from his home in rural Winder, Georgia. Fifty years old, Russell had been his state’s junior senator for fifteen years. And he felt no need to condo…
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