1. James Hood Welcome to the James Hood Museum Artifact 1
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4. Hoods Life in the University
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7. Beginning of Enrolment
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Hood was put into the national Spotlight during the long fight to go to his home state college.
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8. Beginning of Enrolment
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After two years of carefully thinking and court proceedings, Vivian Malone and James Hood were granted permission to enroll in the university by order of District Court Judge Harlan Grooms in 1963.
James Hood and Vivian Malone were two of the first blacks to enroll in the University. Malone attended the University for two years and earned a Bachelors Degree. However, she wanted to do accounting but the school was not offering it.
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James Hood wrote a letter to the editor of Atlanta Journal-Constitution complaining about an article which was based on a survey of students at Clark. It stated that blacks aren’t capable of higher thinking abilities. He soon got a reply printed on toilet paper, he was told he wasn't smart enough to question the newspaper's editors
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10. Intergrade- to bring together
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Life in the University
James Hood and Vivian Malone enrolled at the university of Alabama. Together they integrated the school.
Intergrade- to bring together
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The whites at the University weren’t being fair. They didn’t want Vivian Malone nor James Hood to enroll. James Hood didn’t get the opportunity to sleep in the dorms close to the other students. He was on watch by the securities on campus.
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James Hood left the University of Alabama for various reasons. One of those reasons were to avoid mental and physical breakdown. Another reason why is to avoid possible expulsion.
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13. University of Alabama (1963)
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James Hood and Vivian Malone got blocked from enrolling at a white school by Alabama Gov. Wallace. He stood in front of the doors to try and keep the two from going inside. But they were determined to become the first “colored” people to get a degree.
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14. University of Alabama (1963)
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James Hood did live on campus. But he didn’t sleep in the dorms with the other students. No, he was put where only the Federal Marshals were. Therefore there was always an eye on him where ever he went on campus.
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Hood was a drop out, but after a few months he returned to receive his P.H.D in interdisciplinary studies. (1997)
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16. #1:Hood wanted to attend the University of Alabama to study clinical psychology
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17. #2: After leaving the University of Alabama, Hood transferred to Wayne State University in Michigan, where he earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in criminal justice and sociology.
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18. #3:While Hood fought to gain entrance to the University of Alabama, he attended Clark University in Atlanta, where his English instructor was Christine King Farris, the sister of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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