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. Maurice C. Daniels tells the story of this behind-the-scenes yet highly influential civil rights lawyer who advanced the cause of social justice in the United States.