Biography
Courtney Javon Woods was born in Houston, Texas on February 7, 1980 to Elizabeth and Isiah Woods, Sr. (now deceased). The seventh of nine children, Courtney and his family moved to the smaller town of Baytown, Texas to escape the crime and other pressures of living in the inner-city Houston area. From early on, Courtney saw education as his major means of escape from some of the tough realities in his life. Despite all of his success in school, Courtney was troubled by the fact that he and the rest of his family, especially his mother, had to come home everyday to an abusive, alcoholic, and delinquent father. At the age of 9, he witnessed a fight between his parents that was so appalling; his own father attempted to set his mother on fire with matches and gasoline. After this, Courtney’s mother secretly gathered her children while his father was doing a familiar stint in jail, and they moved to her hometown of Eudora, Arkansas.
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Houston Courtney, African American, Scholarship Program, Environment EMERGE, Arkansas Despite, Eudora Arkansas, Woods Sr, David Satcher, Atlanta GA, Baytown Texas, bonner scholars, african american, family graduate, family graduate college, graduate college,
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