Legal Defense Fund Cites Two Attorneys

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Tucker and Hollowell Cited

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    10 Columbus Circle 
New York, N.Y. 10019 
JUdson 68397 

/ NAACP 

: Neeal Defense and Educational Fund 
PRESS RELEASE 
President 

Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers FOR RELEASE 
Director-Counset Saturday Jack Greenberg July 10, "1965 

LEGAL DEFENSE FUND 
CITES TWO ATTORNEYS 

NEW YORK=---Two prominent southern lawyers have been cited by the 

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc. for their legal efforts 

on behalf of the civil rights movement, Jack Greenberg, Fund 

director-counsel, announced this week. 

Cited were S, W,. Tucker of Richmond, Va., and Donald L. 

Hollowell of Atlanta, Ga., two of the Fund's 120 cooperating 

attorneys. 

Tucker, a 52-year-old son of a lawyer, has been practicing 

law since 1934, He is presently involved in nearly 150 civil 

rights cases in state and federal courts. 

A native of Alexandria, Va., Tucker has been associated with 

the Legal Defense Fund about six years, but has been a member 

of the legal staff of the Virginia State NAACP Conference since 

1946, and has served as chairman of the staff since 1962. Last 

year, he was elected to the NAACP's national Board of Directors. 

The Legal Defense Fund, often called the legal arm of the 

civil rights movement, was established in 1939 as an independent 

non-profit corporation, 

Mr. Tucker has been a champion of Virginia school desegregation, 

and fought dual standards applied in voter registration, selection 

of jurors and in handing out death penalties to Negroes convicted, 

of raping white women, He has Hao played an active role inthe 

defense of persons arrested while participating Anocivel Tigi 

demonstrations throughout the state. 

Bifiollowell, 47, is senior partner in the Atlanta law firm of 

Hollowell, Ward, Moore and Alexander. He has been practicing law 

since 1952, and in the 10 years he has been associated with the 

Legal Defense»Fund has been involved in virtually every important 

Georgia civil rights and civil liberties case. 
(more) 

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



Legal Defense Fund -2- July 10, 1965 

Cites Two Attorneys 

He played a major role in the suit to integrate the University 

of Georgia, and during the 1960 campaign of the late President 

John F. Kennedy, masterminded the legal maneuvering to win the ¥ 

release of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from Georgia States 

Penitentiary. 

Hollowell, who presently has more than 125 civil rights cases 

pending in various courts, has been active in voter registration ha 

drives and Democratic politics in the Atlanta area. 

He is a native of Wichita, Kans., and was graduated from 

Lane College, Jackson, Tennessee, and Loyola University Law School, 

Chicago, Ill.

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