Hood, Nicholas.

Detroit Councilman Nicholas Hood was born on June 21, 1923 in Terre Haute, Indiana. He received a Bachelor of Science Degree from Purdue University in 1945, a Masters of Arts Degree from Yale University in 1946, and did graduate work in sociology at Wayne State University. Nicholas and Elizabeth Flemister married in 1949. Elizabeth worked as an associate professor at Wayne State University with a Ph.D. in educational sociology. They had four children. Reverend Hood came to Detroit from New Orleans, where he served as pastor of Central Congressional Church. While in New Orleans, from 1949 to 1958, he emerged as a leader in preparing the city and the nation for the civil rights movement of the 1960s. He was one of the founders of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. On his arrival in Detroit, Rev. Hood became pastor of the Plymouth Congressional Church, where he remained until his retirement in 1984, and established the Plymouth Non-Profit Housing Corporation. When Rev. Hood was first elected to the Detroit Common Council in Nov. 1965.

From the description of Nicholas Hood papers, 1975-1984. (Detroit Public Library). WorldCat record id: 297170487