Herman J. Russell April 10th Book Launch Building Atlanta: How I Broke Through Segregation to Launch a Business Empire

Book Launch: A Conversation with Herman J. Russell with Moderator Andrea Young Thomas at the Loft At Castleberry Hill, 170 Northside Dr. SW, Suite 96, Atlanta, GA 30313. 6:00-8:00 PM. , Thursday, April 10.

Herman Russell Autobiograpy (Chicago Review Press)

Building Atlanta: How I Broke Through Segregation to Launch a Business Empire. Herman J. Russell with Bob Andelman and Introduction by Andrew Young.

Born into a blue-collar family in the Jim Crow South, Herman J. Russell built a shoeshine business when he was twelve years old—and used the profits to buy a vacant lot where he built a duplex while he was still a teen. Over the next fifty years, he continued to build businesses, amassing one of the nation’s most profitable minority-owned conglomerates.

In Building Atlanta, Russell shares his inspiring life story and reveals how he overcame racism, poverty, and a debilitating speech impediment to become one of the most successful African American entrepreneurs, Atlanta civic leaders, and unsung heroes of the civil rights movement. Not just a typical rags-to-riches story, Russell achieved his success through focus, planning, and humility, and he shares his winning advice throughout. As a millionaire builder before the civil rights movement took hold and a friend of Dr. King, Ralph Abernathy, and Andrew Young, he quietly helped finance the civil rights crusade, putting up bond for protestors and providing the funds that kept King’s dream alive. He provides a wonderful behind-the-scenes look at the role the business community, both black and white working together, played in Atlanta’s peaceful progression from the capital of the racially divided Old South to the financial center of the New South.

Book Reviews: 

http://www.modernluxury.com/the-atlantan/digital-edition

http://www.blackenterprise.com/be-100s/herman-j-russell-atlanta-developer-skyline/ 

On Line Book Sales:

Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/Building-Atlanta-Through-Segregation-Business/dp/1613746946

Barnes and Noble

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/building-atlanta-herman-j-russell/1117219432?ean=9781613746943

Also available at Medu Book Store at Greenbriar Mall and at the Book Launch April 10.

To RSVP for the April 10 Launch reply to :rsvp@larchecommunications.com