Officials at Adams-Buggs Funeral Home in Gadsden said they are
handling arrangements for Hood, who died Thursday. Then-Alabama
Gov. George Wallace made his infamous "stand in the schoolhouse
door" in a failed effort to prevent Hood and Vivian Malone from
registering for classes at the university in 1963. Hood and
Malone were accompanied by Deputy U.S. Attorney General Nicholas
Katzenbach when they were confronted by Wallace as they
attempted to enter the university's Foster Auditorium to
register for classes and pay fees. Wallace backed down later
that day and Hood and Malone registered for classes. UA
President Judy Bonner remembered Hood as a man of "courage and
conviction" for being one of the first black students to enroll
at the university. "His connection to the university continued
decades later when he returned to UA to earn his doctorate in
1997. He was a valued member of The University of Alabama
community, and he will be missed. Our thoughts and prayers are
with his family during this difficult tim