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Alabama Student Who Defied Segregation Dies

James Hood was one of two to stand up to George Wallace in 1963

By the Associated Press

Posted Jan 18, 2013 5:51 PM CST

(AP) – One of the first black students who enrolled at the University of Alabama a half-century ago in defiance of racial segregation has died. James Hood of Gadsden was 70. Then-Alabama Gov. George Wallace made his infamous "stand in the schoolhouse door" in a failed... Read full story »

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civil rights • segregation • University of Alabama • George Wallace • James Hood • Vivian Malone

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Alabama Student Who Defied Segregation Dies

James Hood was one of two to stand up to George Wallace in 1963

civil rights • segregation • University of Alabama • George Wallace • James Hood • Vivian Malone

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