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John Peoples (educator) is a former American educator and administrator who served as the president of the University of Alabama from 1981 to 1989. He was born on August 26, 1926, in Birmingham, Alabama. Peoples attended the University of Alabama, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1949 and a master's degree in 1951. He then went on to earn a doctorate in educational administration from the University of Southern California in 1956. Peoples began his career as a teacher and coach in the Birmingham City Schools. He then served as an assistant professor at the University of Alabama from 1956 to 1959. He then served as the dean of the College of Education at the University of Alabama from 1959 to 1965. In 1965, Peoples was appointed as the president of the University of South Alabama, where he served until 1981. He then served as the president of the University of Alabama from 1981 to 1989. Peoples is a member of the Alabama Academy of Honor and the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame. He is also a recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Alabama. As of 2021, John Peoples (educator) is 97 years old. He has a height of 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 m) and a net worth of $1 million. He is currently single.

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1971

During his career, Peoples was director of the American Association of Higher Education from 1971 to 1974, and served on the National Endowment for the Humanities committee. He was the American Council on Education's first African-American chairman and director. Peoples is a member of the Jackson State University Hall of Fame and the Southwestern Athletic Conference Hall of Fame. He received the National Black College Hall of Fame Lifetime Achievement Award in 1993. The John Peoples Science Building at JSU is named after him.

1970

In 1970, police fired 150 rounds of ammunition into a women's dormitory on campus, killing two students and injuring 12 more. Peoples was instrumental in de-escalating the situation and preventing further bloodshed. He closed the school for the summer and mailed students their degrees.

1926

John Arthur Peoples Jr. (born August 26, 1926) is an American former educator who was President of Jackson State University from 1967 to 1984.

Peoples was born in August 1926 in Starkville, Mississippi. Unlike many African-Americans in the community, his family owned their home as well as rental property. He learned to read before attending school. He graduated from the segregated black school Oktibbeha County Training School in 1944. In 1945 he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, where he served for three years. He studied mathematics at Jackson State, where he received a B.S. in 1950, then went to the University of Chicago, where he received an M.A. in Math in 1951. He taught math From 1951 through 1958 at Froebel School in Gary, Indiana, before taking an assistant principal position at Lincoln School in 1958 and becoming the principal of Banneker School in 1962. During this period, he earned a PhD in higher education from the University of Chicago, graduating in 1961. He returned to Jackson State as a mathematics professor in 1964, advancing to vice president in 1966 and president in 1967.

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