Saving the Soul of Georgia: Donald L. Hollowell and the Struggle for Civil Rights

Daniels thinks that a student experience, the 1946 convention of the leftist Southern Negro Youth Congress, fired Hollowell's belief in the power of social action and instigated his academic switch from dentistry to law; it also fattened the Hollowell file later compiled by the FBI. Frank Smith Jr., leader of the Atlanta student movement, called him "a bridge between us and the traditional leadership in Atlanta," and Andrew Young, one of Martin Luther King Jr.'s advisers, noted Hollowell's "cool demeanor" as he mediated between student radicals, the NAACP, and King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Albany (pp. 129, 149).