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RateVin | Published News: James A. Hood Dies at 70 Fought Segregation at University of Alabama

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James A. Hood Dies at 70 Fought Segregation at University of Alabama
Jan 19th 2013, 09:31

James A. Hood, one of two black students whose effort to enroll at the University of Alabama in June 1963 led to Gov. George Wallace's segregationist "stand in the schoolhouse door" and who later forged an unlikely friendship with the former governor, has died. He was 70.

James A. Hood Dies

Hood, who left the university after eight weeks but returned years

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