Boyd Bosma Business Card; Attorneys Notes; Pickens Board of Education OK's Work on Gordo School News Clipping

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August 21, 1984

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  • Press Releases, Volume 2. Atlanta Lawyer Cited for Civil Rights Work, 1965. 4e7dd210-b692-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/5cdf351b-54d5-4ac4-8072-7f248bdf49d6/atlanta-lawyer-cited-for-civil-rights-work. Accessed August 19, 2025.

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    10 Columbus Circle 
New York, N.Y. 10019 
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NAACP 

Legal Defense and Educational Fund 
PRESS RELEASE 
President 

Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers FOR RELEASE 
Director-Counsel 

i Tow Greenberg aly » 1965 

ATLANTA LAWYER CITED 
FOR CIVIL RIGHTS WORK 

ATLANTA---Prominent Atlanta lawyer Donald L, Hollowell has been 

cited by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. for 

his legal efforts on behalf of the civil rights movement, Jack 

Greenberg, Fund director-counsel, announced today. 

A similar award went to Atty. S. W. Tucker of Richmond, Va. 

Both lawyers are part of a force of 120 cooperating attorneys 

working for the Fund throughout the South. The Legal Defense Fund 

is an independent, non-profit corporation established in 1939, 

A native of Wichita, Kans., Hollowell is a graduate of Lane 

College, Jackson, Tenn., and Loyola University Law School, Chicago, 

Ill, He has been practicing law since 1952, and in the 10 years 

he has been associated with the Legal Defense Fund, he has been in- 

volved in virtually every important civil rights and civil liberties 

case in Georgia. 

Among the important cases he helped win was that of Preston 

Cobb Jr., a Negro teenager who was convicted and sentenced to die 

for the death of a 71-year-old white farmer, The conviction was 

reversed last December after four years of litigation. Hollowell 

was also instrumental in winning the suit to integrate the 

University of Georgia. 

A highlight of the 47-year-old lawyer's career came during the 

late President John F. Kennedy's 1960 campaign when he mastermined 

the legal maneuvering to get the Rev. Dr, Martin Luther King Jr. 

out of Georgia State Penitentiary. 

The senior partner in the Atlanta law firm of Hollowell, 

Ward, Moore and Alexander, he has been active in voter registration 

drives and Democratic politics in the Atlanta area. 

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Jesse DeVore, Jr., Director of Public Information—Night Number 212 Rlverside 9-8487

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