User:B.manpas/Russell L Adams

Adams was born on August 13, 1930, in Baltimore, Maryland to James Russell and Lilly B. (Ponder) Adams. He received his elementary and high school education in Quitman, Georgia. He received his B.A. degree at Morehouse College, Atlanta in 1952, a M.A. degree at the University of Chicago in 1954, and later a Ph.D. in 1971.