Maybe we are supposed to look at the person?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Russell_Jr.
A member of the Democratic Party
He was for decades a leader of Southern opposition to the civil rights movement
Russell and 17 fellow Democratic and one Republican Senators blocked the passage of civil rights legislation via the filibuster. After Russell's protege, President Lyndon B. Johnson, signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law,[9] Russell led a Southern boycott of the 1964 Democratic National Convention
He was also a member of the Warren Commission.