This episode contains material that may be upsetting to some listeners.

I finished law school on the first Friday in June of 1960.

On the following Monday, I went to work for Donald L. Hollowill, who was the ultimate

civil rights lawyer in Atlanta, Georgia at the time.

Vernon Jordan, one of the great figures in the American Civil Rights Movement, talking

about his mentor.

And I went to work for him right out of law school for $35 a week.

And there were no other jobs at the local government level, county, state, or federal.

I couldn't even take the bar review course at John Marshall University because Georgia

law required education to be separate and segregated.

So I went to work for Donald L. Hollowill.

My first day at work, I was in the Atlanta Municipal Court helping him get demonstrators

from the Atlanta University system out of jail.

My name is Malcolm Gladwell.

You're listening to revisionist history, my podcast about things overlooked and misunderstood.

This episode picks up with a previous one left off with a story of an extraordinary man named

Donald L. Hollowill.

Hollowill died in 2004, but I wish he was still alive because he has so much to teach us.

Like how do you keep going when all seems lost?

How do you behave?

How do you conduct yourself?

If you're one of the leaders of a losing cause and for most of his life, Hollowill fought

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