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Donald Lee Hollowell (December 19, 1917 – December 27, 2004) was an American civil rights attorney during the Civil Rights Movement, in the state of Georgia. He successfully sued to integrate Atlanta's public schools, Georgia colleges, universities and public transit, freed Martin Luther King Jr. from prison, and mentored civil rights ...
Feb 1, 2024 · Donald L. Hollowell served King and many other civil rights icons with startling courage. February 1, 2024. By Mark McCormick, ... Hollowell served as president of the Voter Education Project from 1971 to 1986 and was the recipient of countless awards, including the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund’s Lawyer of the Year (1965), and the ...
Dec 27, 2004 · Hollowell, Donald L. December 19, 1917 to December 27, 2004. During Donald Hollowell’s career as a prominent civil rights attorney, he represented Martin Luther King several times, beginning in October 1960, when King was arrested for his participation in a sit-in at Rich’s, a department store in Atlanta. Hollowell was born in Wichita ...
Jan 2, 2005 · Donald L Hollowell, Atlanta civil rights lawyer, dies at age 87; photo (S) ... Mr. Hollowell was born in Wichita, Kan., on Dec. 19, 1917, and at age 18 was told by his father, a janitor, that he ...
Sep 12, 2007 · Donald Lee Hollowell was born on December 19, 1917, in Wichita, Kansas, to Ocenia Bernice and Harrison Hannibal Hollowell. During Hollowell’s youth his family moved regularly, usually in search of employment for his father, who worked primarily as a custodian but took odd jobs to better provide for his wife and four children.
Donald L. Hollowell. 1917–2004. Attorney. Donald L. Hollowell was a distinguished civil rights attorney who successfully argued several notable court cases that helped end segregation in the American South. As a lawyer for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Hollowell quickly rose to prominence for his expert legal strategies and confidence in the courtroom.
When Donald L. Hollowell settled in Atlanta in 1951, with his law degree from Loyola University and his honorable discharge as Captain from the U.S. Army, he could enter the courthouse through the ...
Hollowell, Donald L., 1917-2004 Biography: "As one of a handful of black lawyers practicing civil rights law in the 1950s and 1960s, Donald Hollowell was instrumental in the movement to desegregate public institutions throughout Georgia. During his long career Hollowell provided counsel to student activists during the Atlanta sit-ins, defended ...
Donald Lee Hollowell was born on December 19, 1917, in Wichita, Kansas, one of five children of Ocenia and Harrison Hollowell. The family moved several times during Donald’s childhood, in order for his father to find work. At the age of 17 Hollowell’s father made him quit school before his senior year of high school so that he could help ...
Donald Hollowell (1917 - 2004) Donald L. Hollowell was born and raised in Wichita, Kansas. Although in Kansas Hollowell did not encounter the intense Jim Crow restrictions of the South, he faced blatant racism and discrimination while serving in the U.S. Army during World War II. Hollowell recounts that “army officials relegated him to eating…
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