By Butler Cain, Alabama Public Radio
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Interview With James Hood
Tuscaloosa, AL – Dr. James Hood remembers Vivian Malone Jones, who died Thursday, October 13 in Atlanta.
As African American students trying to integrate the University of Alabama in 1963, Hood and Jones were at the center of a political firestorm.
Former Governor George Wallace made his infamous "stand in the schoolhouse door" to symbolically block their registration.
Hood left the University of Alabama after a few months but returned to earn a Doctorate in 1997. Jones, however, stayed. In 1965, she became the first African American to earn a degree from Alabama.
Dr. Hood spoke with Alabama Public Radio's Butler Cain.