Hood, James A.
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Fuller Name
- James Alexander
Additional Information
Birth Date
- 1942-11-10
Death Date
- 2013-01-17
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1963
- Organization: University of Alabama
Birth Place
- Gadsden, Ala.
Associated Language
- English
Field of Activity
(lcsh) College integration--Alabama
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Sources
- found: Jack Rabin Collection on Alabama Civil Rights and Southern Activists, 1941-2004 (bulk 1956-1974)(James A. Hood; African American young man from Gadsden who had enrolled at the University of Alabama and immediately thereafter was forced to withdraw because of a speech he made during Gadsden, Ala. protests, 1963)
- found: New York times WWW site, Jan. 22, 2013(in obituary published Jan. 20: James A. Hood; b. James Alexander Hood, Nov. 10, 1942, Gadsden, Ala.; d. there Thursday [Jan. 17, 2013], aged 70; integrated the University of Alabama in 1963 together with his fellow student Vivian Malone after Gov. George C. Wallace capitulated to the federal government in a signature moment of the civil rights movement known as the "stand in the schoolhouse door")
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Change Notes
- 2006-09-11: new
- 2013-01-22: revised
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