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Saving the Soul of Georgia - Donald L. Hollowell and the Struggle for Civil Rights (Paperback)
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Saving the Soul of Georgia - Donald L. Hollowell and the Struggle for Civil Rights (Paperback)
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Donald L. Hollowell was Georgia's chief civil rights attorney
during the 1950s and 1960s. In this role he defended African
American men accused or convicted of capital crimes in a racially
hostile legal system, represented movement activists arrested for
their civil rights work, and fought to undermine the laws that
maintained state-sanctioned racial discrimination. In Saving the
Soul of Georgia, Maurice C. Daniels tells the story of this
behind-the- scenes yet highly influential civil rights lawyer who
defended the rights of blacks and advanced the cause of social
justice in the United States. Hollowell grew up in Kansas somewhat
insulated from the harsh conditions imposed by Jim Crow laws
throughout the South. As a young man he served as a Buffalo Soldier
in the legendary Tenth Cavalry, but it wasn't until after he fought
in World War II that he determined to become a civil rights
attorney. The war was an eye-opener, as Hollowell experienced the
cruel discrimination of racist segregationist policies. The irony
of defending freedom abroad for the sake of preserving Jim Crow
laws at home steeled his resolve to fight for civil rights upon
returning from war. From his legal work in the case of Hamilton E.
Holmes and Charlayne Hunter that desegregated the University of
Georgia to his defense of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to his
collaboration with Thurgood Marshall and his service as the NAACP's
chief counsel in Georgia, Saving the Soul of Georgia explores the
intersections of Hollowell's work with the larger civil rights
movement.
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