Attorney who helped integrate UGA awarded honorary degree

ATHENS - Donald Hollowell, an Atlanta lawyer who fought to integrate the University of Georgia, register black voters and end racial discrimination, will receive an honorary degree from the university. <br> <br> The 84-year-old Hollowell and New York lawyer Constance Baker Motley led the legal team that in 1961 forced the university to open its doors to the first black students, Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes. <br> <br> His law firm handled many other civil rights cases, including several that went to the U.S. Supreme Court, and helped desegregate Augusta&#39;s buses and Macon&#39;s schools. <br> <br> Hollowell also served as president of the Voter Education Project from 1971 to 1986. <br> <br> Hollowell will receive the honorary Doctor of Laws degree -- which, after the earned doctorate, is the highest recognition the university can bestow -- at the fall semester undergraduate commencement exercises December 21.