Irvin Stanley Booth Jr. was born on Jan. 5, 1942, in Waycross, Ga., near the Okefenokee Swamp, and later moved with his parents, first to Macon, Ga., and then to Memphis.

Born Jan. 5, 1942, in Waycross, Georgia, Irvin Stanley Booth Jr. grew up near the Okefenokee Swamp, a place he once described as a “heavily Protestant area with many blacks and many white ...