The collection contains court documents and a research paper collected by attorney Allan G. Donn related to school desegregation in Prince Edward County, Norfolk and Richmond, Virginia and North Carolina. The court documents relate to
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Allan G. Donn
Accession #A2009-20
Gift as part of the Desegregation of Virginia Education (DOVE) project.
[Identification of item], Box [insert number], Folder [insert number and title], Allan G. Donn Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
The finding aid was created by Sonia Yaco, Special Collections Librarian, in 2010.
Allan Gerald Donn was born in 1939 in Norfolk to Milton Donn and Freda Fleder. He graduated from the University of Virginia with a Bachelor of Arts. In 1964, he received a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from Harvard University Law School and became engaged to Susan L. Berman who he later married. A year later Donn was admitted to the Virginia State Bar. In 1967, he received a Master of Laws (LLM) in Taxation from Georgetown Law Center. As of 2010, Donn is a member of Willcox and Savage, specializing in partnerships, limited liability companies, taxation and estate planning.
While a student at Harvard, Donn was present when the United States Supreme Court heard the school desegregation case,
Note written by Sonia Yaco
[Identification of item and date], Box 1, Folder 1, Cocheyse J. Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, 1961-1963, Allan G. Donn Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
[Identification of item and date], Box 1, Folder 2, Cocheyse J. Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 1962, Allan G. Donn Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
[Identification of item and date], Box 1, Folder 3, Cocheyse J. Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, United States Supreme Court, 1963-1964, Allan G. Donn Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
[Identification of item and date], Box 1, Folder 4, "The Prince Edward County School Closing Case," Allan G. Donn, 1964, Allan G. Donn Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
[Identification of item and date], Box 1, Folder 5, Swan v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, United States Supreme Court, 1970, Allan G. Donn Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
[Identification of item and date], Box 1, Folder 6, Carlotta Mozelle Brewer and Demetria Yvonne Brewer vs. Norfolk School Board, 1970, Allan G. Donn Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.