{"id":1113,"date":"2012-10-17T11:01:01","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T18:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1113"},"modified":"2017-11-20T11:41:05","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T18:41:05","slug":"councill-william-hooper-1848-1909","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1113","title":{"rendered":"COUNCILL, WILLIAM HOOPER, 1848-1909"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Educator; university president; attorney. Born&#8211; July 12, 1848, Fayetteville, N.C. Parents&#8211; William and Mary Jane Councill. Married&#8211; Maria H. Weeden, September 5, 1885.\u00a0 Children&#8211;four. Education&#8211;attended one of the first schools established for African-Americans after the Civil War, in\u00a0Stevenson, AL,\u00a01865-1867; otherwise\u00a0privately tutored and\u00a0self-educated (studied Latin, mathematics, chemistry, and law).\u00a0Ph. D. Morris Brown College. \u00a0First black attorney admitted to the Alabama bar, 1883 (but neber practiced law). \u00a0\u00a0Began teaching in 1867; served as principal of Hunstville\u00a0Colored School; as chief enrolling clerk for the Alabama House of Representatives, 1872-1874; as receiver for the general land office for the northern district of Alabama, 1875. Appointed principal of the newly created Alabama State Normal and Industrial School at Huntsville in 1875;\u00a0 served as\u00a0its president until his death in 1909.\u00a0 Instrumental in the selection of the school as the black land-grant institution in Alabama under the Morrill Act of 1890, when it was renamed the Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College.\u00a0Founder and editor of weekly newspaper Huntsville Herald, 1877-1884.\u00a0\u00a0An ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church; founded St. John A. M.E. Church in Huntsville, 1885. \u00a0 Died April 17, 1909.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biographical Dictionary of American Educators, vol. 1; Dictionary of American Negro Biography (1982); Who Was Who in America online and Who Was Who in Alabama.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bright Side of the Southern Question. Speech Delivered at Corona, Ala., August 25, 1903. Huntsville, Ala.; Hay Printing Co., 1978.<\/p>\n<p>Lamp of Wisdom; or, Race History Illuminated &#8230;. Nashville; Haley, 1898.<\/p>\n<p>Negro Development in the South.\u00a0 1901.<\/p>\n<p>The Servant Problem in the South. Extracts from Speeches. Normal, Ala.; s.n., 1901.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Educator; university president; attorney. Born&#8211; July 12, 1848, Fayetteville, N.C. Parents&#8211; William and Mary Jane Councill. Married&#8211; Maria H. Weeden, September 5, 1885.\u00a0 Children&#8211;four. Education&#8211;attended one of the first schools established for African-Americans after the Civil War, in\u00a0Stevenson, AL,\u00a01865-1867; otherwise\u00a0privately tutored and\u00a0self-educated (studied Latin, mathematics, chemistry, and law).\u00a0Ph. D. Morris Brown College. \u00a0First black [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7088,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions\/7088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}