Whereas this resolution may be cited as the original resolution calling on the Senate to remove the name of Richard B. Russell from the Russell Senate Office Building; Whereas Senator Richard B. Russell opposed civil rights as unconstitutional and unwise ; Whereas, in 1935, Senator Russell participated in his first filibuster of a civil rights bill, when he and his colleagues in the Senate stopped an anti-lynching bill with 6 days of nonstop talking; Whereas, in 1936, Senator Russell stated in a re-election campaign speech that as one who was born and reared in the atmosphere of the Old South, with 6 generations of my forebears now resting beneath Southern soil, I am willing to go as far and make as great a sacrifice to preserve and insure White supremacy in the social, economic, and political life of our state as any man who lives within her borders ; Whereas, in 1956, Senator Russell wrote an initial draft of the Southern Manifesto, the bicameral resolution stating support for segregation and refusal to observe Brown v. Board of Education; Whereas, because President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Senator Russell, along with more than a dozen other Senators, including Herman Talmadge, boycotted the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City; Whereas, on March 17, 1964, the New York Times published an article entitled, Relocate Negroes Evenly in States , in which Senator Russell proposed a voluntary racial relocation program to adjust the imbalance of the African-American population between the 11 States of the old Confederacy and the rest of the Union; Whereas, in 1972, shortly after Senator Russell’s death, the Senate voted in an overwhelming majority (99–1) that the Old Senate Office Building be named the Russell Senate Office Building; Whereas historian Gilbert C. Fite wrote at the conclusion of his biography of Senator Russell, White supremacy and racial segregation were to him cardinal principles for good and workable human relationships