The Southern General (continued)

Chapter Two of "The Walls of Jericho: Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Richard Russell, and the Struggle for Civil Rights.

RUSSELL WAS BORN on November 2, 1897, in the sleepy northeast Georgia farming town of Winder, about 50 miles from Atlanta. R. B., as his family and friends knew him in childhood, was not Richard and Ina Russell’s first child; three daughters had preceded him. As the elder Russell began to fret that he might never have a namesake, even the family physici…