James Hood dies at 70

• Man defied segregation, then-Gov. Wallace 50 years ago at the University of Alabama

By: Associated Press - Texarkana Gazette

Associated Press • In this 1996 file photo, former four-term Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace, seated at right, holds hands with James Hood at the Wallace Foundation in Montgomery, Ala., as they view a display picturing Wallace’s famous stand at the University of Alabama in 1963. Hood was ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala.—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.

Officials at Adams-Buggs Funeral Home in Gadsden said they are handling arrangements for Hood, ...

Published: 01/20/2013