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1 Title:   Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection: Collection Summary  Save
  Creator:   Russell, Richard B. (Richard Brevard), 1897-1971  
  Dates:   1840-1978  
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Richard B. Russell Jr. served in public office for fifty years as a state legislator (1920-1931), governor of Georgia (1931-1932), and U.S. Senator (1933-1971). Best known for his opposition to civil rights legislation, Russell also focused on national defense, agriculture, soil and water conservation, and economic growth in Georgia. Russell's papers document the entirety of his career, with the vast majority of the materials focusing on his terms in the U.S. Senate. The records include constituent correspondence and other correspondence files, speeches and media files, legislative files, files on civil rights, and published materials.
  
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2 Title:   Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection, Subgroup A: Georgia Legislative/Speaker of the House Papers  Save
  Creator:   Russell, Richard B. (Richard Brevard), 1897-1971  
  Dates:   1927-1930  
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The Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection, Subgroup A: Georgia Legislative/Speaker of the House Papers contains a small amount of material which reflects some of Russell's official activities as state representative and Speaker of the House. It includes correspondence, an Armistice Day speech, and an index file that Speaker of the House Russell maintained for House committee assignments.
  
  Identifier:   RBRL001RBR_A  
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3 Title:   Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection, Subgroup B: Georgia Gubernatorial Papers  Save
  Creator:   Russell, Richard B. (Richard Brevard), 1897-1971  
  Dates:   1930-1933  
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Although a small series, the Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection, Subgroup B. Georgia Gubernatorial Papers are an important source of information on the 1930 gubernatorial campaign, the Robert E. Burns extradition case, and the Georgia state budget for 1932 to 1933.
  
  Identifier:   RBRL001RBR_B  
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4 Title:   Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection, Subgroup C, Series I: Dictation  Save
  Creator:   Russell, Richard B. (Richard Brevard), 1897-1971  
  Dates:   1944-1970  
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The Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection comprehensively documents Russell's activities as a United States senator representing the state of Georgia. The Dictation Series is composed of letters and memoranda entirely or partially dictated by Senator Russell. The series is an integration of the copies for the Winder and Washington offices. Most of the dictated correspondence or memos contain Russell's views on upcoming legislation, political appointments, support of or opposition to bills and amendments as well as his positions on such issues as defense, the Vietnam war, agriculture issues, the investigation of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and civil rights and other national issues. Senator Russell rarely expressed his opinions regarding local and state politics in writing or in any public forum.
  
  Identifier:   RBRL001RBR_C_I  
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5 Title:   Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection, Subgroup C, Series II: Intra-Office Communications  Save
  Creator:   Russell, Richard B. (Richard Brevard), 1897-1971  
  Dates:   1943-1971  
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The Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection, Subgroup C, series II. Intra-Office Communications comprehensively reveals Richard Russell's daily activities as a United States Senator representing the state of Georgia. Materials in this series are divided into four categories: Memoranda, Appointment Books, Guest Registers, and Mail Desk Diaries. Not many files survived from Russell's first eleven years in office; the main series for this time period are Early Office, Political, Political Patronage, Personal, and a few files in General.
  
  Identifier:   RBRL001RBR_C_II  
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6 Title:   Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection, Subgroup C, Series III: Speech/Media  Save
  Creator:   Russell, Richard B. (Richard Brevard), 1897-1971  
  Dates:   1933-1971  
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The Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection Subgroup C, Series III. Speech/Media comprehensively reveals Richard Russell's activities as a United States senator representing the state of Georgia. The Speech/Media series consists of manuscripts, typescripts, printed copies, and transcripts of Senator Russell's speeches, articles, interviews, press releases, and related materials; daily copies of the Congressional Record; and speeches, articles, and press releases by other colleagues of the senator. Not many files survived from Russell's first eleven years in office; the main series for this time period are Early Office, Political, Political Patronage, Personal, and a few files in General.
  
  Identifier:   RBRL001RBR_C_III  
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7 Title:   Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection, Subgroup C, Series IV: Early Office  Save
  Creator:   Russell, Richard B. (Richard Brevard), 1897-1971  
  Dates:   1931-1938  
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The Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection, Subgroup C, Series IV. Early Office reflects Russell's first years as a United States senator and reveals him as a strong supporter of New Deal legislation. Some gubernatorial papers were transferred to Russell's senate office and are found in this series. This series contains correspondence with some printed materials and is incomplete. There are few files documenting Russell's office during the first eleven years, especially from 1938 to 1943, the main series for this time period are Early Office, Political, Political Patronage, Personal, and a few files in General. Any additional non-textual materials originally filed with papers were removed for preservation purposes and improved access. These materials include photographs, audiovisual items, scrapbooks, vertical files, memorabilia, and books.
  
  Identifier:   RBRL001RBR_C_IV  
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8 Title:   Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection, Subgroup C, Series IX: Legislative  Save
  Creator:   Russell, Richard B. (Richard Brevard), 1897-1971  
  Dates:   1933-1971  
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The Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection, Subgroup C, Series IX. Legislative is primarily constituent mail, but includes legislative drafts, memoranda, hearing transcripts, and correspondence with congressional colleagues. Although official senate committee records remain with each committee and, when retired by the committee, they are transferred to the Center for Legislative Archives, National Archives and Records Administration, in Washington, D.C., as part of the permanent records of Congress, Senator Russell retained copies of some materials related to these committees. Any additional non-textual materials originally filed with papers were removed for preservation purposes and improved access. These materials include photographs, audiovisual items, scrapbooks, vertical files, memorabilia, and books.
  
  Identifier:   RBRL001RBR_C_IX  
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9 Title:   Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection, Subgroup C, Series VI: Political  Save
  Creator:   Russell, Richard B. (Richard Brevard), 1897-1971  
  Dates:   1932-1971  
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The Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection, Subgroup C, Series VI. Political not only spans the entire senate career of Russell but also carries over the gubernatorial office with the 1932 senatorial campaign and the early senate office procedures through Russell's office filing reorganization circa 1943. The Political series is a rich source of documentation for studying political campaigns in the mid-twentieth century. The campaign files cover Senator Russell's campaigns of 1932, 1936, 1942, 1948, 1954, 1960, and 1966. In addition to the senatorial campaign files, the series contains files documenting Russell's unsuccessful 1952 race for United States president. Any additional non-textual materials originally filed with papers were removed for preservation purposes and improved access. These materials include photographs, audiovisual items, scrapbooks, vertical files, memorabilia, and books. The Special Name files contain information at a particular point in time on individuals whom Senator Russell considered of enough interest to warrant an individual folder. Such individuals include Lyndon B. Johnson, Eugene Talmadge, Charles Crisp, Herman E. Talmadge, Ralph McGill, Strom Thurmond, Orval Faubus, and Barry Goldwater, among others.
  
  Identifier:   RBRL001RBR_C_VI  
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10 Title:   Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection, Subgroup C, Series VII: Political Patronage  Save
  Creator:   Russell, Richard B. (Richard Brevard), 1897-1971  
  Dates:   1932-1971  
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The Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection Subgroup C, Series VII: Political Patronage documents the many individuals from Georgia and elsewhere who sought Senator Russell's assistance in winning federal appointments or jobs, and materials here reflect his role in the process. Requests are for presidential appointments, federal judgeships, federal attorneys and assistant attorneys, federal marshals and deputy marshals, federal jobs, Georgia-based postmasters, and out-of-state judgeships. Any additional non-textual materials originally filed with papers were removed for preservation purposes and improved access. These materials include photographs, audiovisual items, scrapbooks, vertical files, memorabilia, and books.
  
  Identifier:   RBRL001RBR_C_VII  
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11 Title:   Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection, Subgroup C, Series VIII: Official  Save
  Creator:   Russell, Richard B. (Richard Brevard), 1897-1971  
  Dates:   1943-1971  
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The Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection, Subgroup C, Series VIII: Official is, for the most part, correspondence which did not readily adapt itself to filing in one of the other subject files, especially political or job files in the Political and Political Patronage series. The emphasis for research in this series is geographical, and it is a good series to consult when other files lack information. The subseries are County files, arranged alphabetically, and Out-of-State files, arranged chronologically. Some case mail, found throughout Official, was removed as restricted items. Any additional non-textual materials originally filed with papers were removed for preservation purposes and improved access.
  
  Identifier:   RBRL001RBR_C_VIII  
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12 Title:   Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection, Subgroup C, Series XI: Rivers and Harbors  Save
  Creator:   Russell, Richard B. (Richard Brevard), 1897-1971  
  Dates:   1937-1970  
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The Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection, Subgroup C, Series XI. Rivers and Harbors contains correspondence, printed materials and publications relating to federal river and harbor projects. Files are subdivided into General, Corps of Engineers, Individual Projects, and Flood Control Projects. The individual projects were relevant to the constituents of the state of Georgia and its neighbors. Any additional non-textual materials originally filed with papers were removed for preservation purposes and improved access. These materials include photographs, audiovisual items, scrapbooks, vertical files, memorabilia, and books.
  
  Identifier:   RBRL001RBR_C_XI  
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13 Title:   Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection, Subgroup C, Series XII: MacArthur Hearings  Save
  Creator:   Russell, Richard B. (Richard Brevard), 1897-1971  
  Dates:   1951-1953  
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The Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection, Subgroup C, Series XII: MacArthur Hearings documents the work of the Joint Senate Committees on Armed Services and Foreign Relations from Russell's perspective. The four subseries are correspondence file, subject file, hearings materials, and committee prints. This series includes correspondence, reports, memoranda, briefs, newspaper clippings, speeches, press statements, and printed materials. The hearings materials consist of an accordion folder and a black notebook, which was carried by Senator Russell to the hearings. Both contain notes written by Russell during the hearings, speeches and statements by Russell, analyses of testimony for purposes of strategy, hearing summaries, and printed reports.
  
  Identifier:   RBRL001RBR_C_XII  
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14 Title:   Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection, Subgroup C, Series XIII: Kennedy Assassinations  Save
  Creator:   Russell, Richard B. (Richard Brevard), 1897-1971  
  Dates:   1963-1970  
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The Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection, Subgroup C, Series XIII. Kennedy Assassinations concerns both the homicides of John F. Kennedy and his brother, Robert F. Kennedy. The majority of the documents, however, relate to the president's assassination and the subsequent findings of the Warren Commission. The files of this series include information prompted by the investigation, correspondence, reports, testimony transcripts, book manuscript drafts and proofs, memoranda, evidential material, manuscript drafts and proofs of the final commission report and clippings pertaining to the assassinations, the commission reports, and other related topics. Other material related to this series is in the Dictation series and in the Intra-Office Communications series of the Winder Papers. Any additional non-textual materials originally filed with papers were removed for preservation purposes and improved access. These materials include photographs, audiovisual items, scrapbooks, vertical files, memorabilia, and books.
  
  Identifier:   RBRL001RBR_C_XIII  
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15 Title:   Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection, Subgroup C, Series XIV: Military Installations  Save
  Creator:   Russell, Richard B. (Richard Brevard), 1897-1971  
  Dates:   1945-1970  
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The Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection, Subgroup C, Series XIV: Military Installations contains correspondence and printed materials on military bases primarily in Georgia. This series is subdivided into general correspondence, arranged chronologically, and individual installations, arranged alphabetically and chronologically. The general correspondence concerns the location of military bases and contains some material related to government installations that were not military. Individual installations consist of correspondence and printed materials associated with military bases located in Georgia. Any additional non-textual materials originally filed with papers were removed for preservation purposes and improved access. These materials include photographs, audiovisual items, scrapbooks, vertical files, memorabilia, and books.
  
  Identifier:   RBRL001RBR_C_XIV  
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16 Title:   Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection, Subgroup C, Series XIX: Case Mail  Save
  Creator:   Russell, Richard B. (Richard Brevard), 1897-1971  
  Dates:   1931-1935  
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The Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection, Subgroup C, Series XIX: Case Mail is case-like correspondence with constituents concerning confidential matters or disclosing information of a confidential nature in pursuit usually for redress from the federal government or for appointment or employment. Case Mail is closed for seventy-five years from the date of a file's creation. File headings include Army-Navy (all military branches), immigration, social security, veterans, pardon and parole, selective service, unemployment compensation, jobs, labor, and military academies.
  
  Identifier:   RBRL001RBR_C_XIX  
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17 Title:   Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection, Subgroup C, Series XVI: International  Save
  Creator:   Russell, Richard B. (Richard Brevard), 1897-1971  
  Dates:   1942-1971  
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The Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection, Subgroup C, Series XVI: International consists of correspondence and printed material relating to international regions, countries, cities, topics, and incidents. It is subdivided into general correspondence and subject files. General correspondence contains writings and materials of a general international nature. The Subject files include correspondence and materials pertaining to specific geographic regions, such as Africa and the Middle East, and countries such as Cuba, Angola, the Dominican Republic and Vietnam. Materials relating to the British Loan (1942-1946), the Berlin Crisis, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Pueblo Incident, and the Dominican Republic Crisis of 1965 are located in these files. Any additional non-textual materials originally filed with papers were removed for preservation purposes and improved access. These materials include photographs, audiovisual items, scrapbooks, vertical files, memorabilia, and books.
  
  Identifier:   RBRL001RBR_C_XVI  
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18 Title:   Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection, Subgroup C, Series XVII: Raesly File  Save
  Creator:   Russell, Richard B. (Richard Brevard), 1897-1971  
  Dates:   1957-1973  
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The Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection, Subgroup C, Series XVII: Raesly File consists of miscellaneous items acquired, used, and maintained by Ms. Raesly during her tenure as personal secretary. Included are three secretarial notebooks, two of which were used by Raesly; the third was used by Jane McMullan as assistant personal secretary in the mid 1960s. The notebooks contain subject paragraphs dictated by Russell or approved staff for composing letters of reply. Other items include correspondence, press releases, memoranda, and dictation copies, which were maintained by Raesly for safe-keeping and ready reference.Any additional non-textual materials originally filed with papers were removed for preservation purposes and improved access. These materials include photographs, audiovisual items, scrapbooks, vertical files, memorabilia, and books.
  
  Identifier:   RBRL001RBR_C_XVII  
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19 Title:   Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection, Subgroup C, Series XVIII: Exhibit B  Save
  Creator:   Russell, Richard B. (Richard Brevard), 1897-1971  
  Dates:   1930-1971  
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The Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection, Subgroup C, Series XVIII. Exhibit B, under the terms of the original conveyance of the Russell Collection, was not to be made available until May 8, 1973. The primary intent of the executors was to avoid injuring or embarrassing any living person by the the dissemination of information contained in these documents. Exhibit B is currently available to researchers; however, this series must be reviewed by Russell Library staff prior to patron use. Family correspondence, excluding correspondence with Ina Dillard Russell and Richard B. Russell, Sr., is restricted. With the exception of family correspondence and some incoming correspondence, the documents were created primarily by Russell and his office staff. The general subject matter includes such topics as national defense, foreign policy, Vietnam, federal judgeships, the Warren Commission, office matters, legislation, and family affairs.
  
  Identifier:   RBRL001RBR_C_XVIII  
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20 Title:   Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection, Subgroup C, Series XX: Pinks [Limited to Staff Use]  Save
  Creator:   Russell, Richard B. (Richard Brevard), 1897-1971  
  Dates:   1943-1971  
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The Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection, Subgroup C, Series XX. Pinks are the copies of Senator Russell's outgoing letters which index the yellow subject copies by correspondent's surname. Arrangement is chronological by latest date and alphabetical by surname within each year. This series does provide for searching by name, but it is limited to library staff use because it includes reference to case mail and other restricted correspondence.
  
  Identifier:   RBRL001RBR_C_XX  
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