![[logo]](http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/logos/odu.jpg)
ODU Community Collections
3000 Perry Library4427 Hampton Blvd.
Norfolk, VA 23529
Business Number: 757-683-5350
libspecialcollections@odu.edu
URL: https://www.odu.edu/library/special-collections
Sonia Yaco
Administrative Information
Conditions Governing Use
Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from Special Collections and University Archives, and the holder of the copyright, if not Old Dominion University Libraries.
Conditions Governing Access
Open to researchers without restrictions.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Box [insert number], Folder [insert number and title], Allan G. Donn Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
Source of Acquisition
Allan G. Donn
Method of Acquisition
Accession #A2009-20
Gift as part of the Desegregation of Virginia Education (DOVE) project.
Processing Information
The finding aid was created by Sonia Yaco, Special Collections Librarian, in 2010.
Biographical or Historical Information
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, Cocheyse J. Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County . In this pivotal case, the court ruled that closing public schools to avoid desegregation was unconstitutional and ordered that they be reopened. Later, as a member of Norfolk legal firm of Willcox, Savage, Lawrence, Dickson & Spindle, Donn represented the School Board of City of Norfolk in desegregation cases in the late 1960s and 1970s.
Note written by Sonia Yaco
Scope and Contents
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 Cocheyse J. Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County and Swan v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg .
Arrangement Note
The collection is organized chronologically.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- School integration--Law and legislation--United States--Cases
- Cocheyse J. Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County
- Lawyers--Virginia--Norfolk
- School integration--Massive resistance movement
- School integration--Virginia--Norfolk--History--20th century
- School integration--Virginia--Prince Edward County--History--20th century
- Swan v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
- United States. Court of Appeals (4th Circuit)
- United States. Supreme Court
- Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals
Container List
- Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 1 Folder 1
Folder 1: Cocheyse J. Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia1961-1963Preferred Citation
[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.
- Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 2 Folder 2
Folder 2: Cocheyse J. Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit1962Preferred Citation
[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.
- Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 3 Folder 3
Folder 3: Cocheyse J. Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, United States Supreme Court1963-1964Preferred Citation
[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.
- Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 4 Folder 4
Folder 4: "The Prince Edward County School Closing Case," Allan G. Donn1964Preferred Citation
[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.
- Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 5 Folder 5
Folder 5: Swan v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, United States Supreme Court1970Preferred Citation
[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.