Nicholas Hood

Nicholas Hood Sr. was an American minister, civil rights activist, and politician. He served six terms as a member of the Detroit City Council. Hood was the second black council member in the history of that body. He was the pastor of Plymouth Congregational Church in Detroit until 1985, when he became pastor emeritus. He died on April 10, 2016, at the age of 94. He is buried in Terre Haute, Indiana, where he grew up under Jim Crow segregation. His paternal grandfather was a former slave who managed a brickyard in Martinsville, Indiana. His father was an electrician and a teacher; his mother was a graduate of Fisk University who had been a teacher and social worker. He had a son, Nicholas Hood Jr., who was born on June 21, 1923, and died on June 11, 2016. He also had a daughter, Christina Hood, who died on September 11, 2013. He has a son and a daughter-in-law, both of whom are also pastors in Detroit, Michigan, and in New Orleans, Louisiana.