James Hood
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James Hood was one of the first Black students to enroll at the University of Alabama, whose attempted admission in 1963 prompted Governor George Wallace’s infamous “Stand in the Schoolhouse Door” segregationist protest.
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| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Hood canonical | 7 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
civil rights figure
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person ⓘ |
| admissionAttemptDate | 1963 ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
University of Alabama desegregation
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civil rights movement in the United States ⓘ |
| causeOfNotability | attempt to integrate a previously segregated public university ⓘ |
| contributedTo | advancement of racial integration in public universities in the United States ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Alabama ⓘ |
| ethnicity | African American ⓘ |
| eventInvolvedIn | Stand in the Schoolhouse Door ⓘ |
| eventParticipatedIn | desegregation of the University of Alabama ⓘ |
| faced |
segregationist resistance
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state-level opposition to school integration ⓘ |
| familyName | Hood ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalSignificance | helped end formal racial segregation at the University of Alabama ⓘ |
| hasRole | student ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
American civil rights movement
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surface form:
Civil Rights Era
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| inspired | later efforts to integrate higher education in the American South ⓘ |
| mentionedAlongside | Vivian Malone Jones ⓘ |
| name | James Hood self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the first Black students to enroll at the University of Alabama ⓘ |
| opposedBy | George Wallace ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Tuscaloosa, Alabama ⓘ |
| stateOfActivity | Alabama ⓘ |
| subjectOf | news coverage of the 1963 University of Alabama desegregation crisis ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 1960s ⓘ |
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