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.