Building Atlanta: How I Broke Through Segregation to Launch a Business Empire - Herman J. Russell

Descriere Building Atlanta: How I Broke Through Segregation to Launch a Business Empire - Herman J. Russell

Herman J. Russell was the founder, CEO, and chairman of the board of H. J. Russell and Company and Concessions International, as well as a nationally recognized entrepreneur, philanthropist, and Atlanta civic leader. Over the course of the last five decades he built one of the nation's most profitable minority-owned business empires, transforming his father's one-man plastering company into a construction and real estate conglomerate. Bob Andelman is the author or coauthor of 16 biographical, business, management, self-help, and sports books, including Built from Scratch with Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank, the founders of Home Depot; Fans Not Customers with Vernon W. Hill, founder of Commerce Bank and Metro Bank UK; and Mind over Business with Ken Baum. He has written for BusinessWeek, Newsweek, and the St. Petersburg Times. He lives in St. Petersburg, Florida. Andrew Young is an activist and pastor, and a former politician and diplomat. He has served as the mayor of Atlanta, a congressman from Georgia's fifth congressional district, and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. A member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference during the 1960s civil rights movement, he was a supporter and friend of Martin Luther King Jr. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

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