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Bookmark or Share- Connor, Theophilus Eugene "Bull" - The Martin Luther King, Jr ...An ardent segregationist who served for 22 years as commissioner of public safety in Birmingham, Alabama, Bull Connor used his administrative authority over the police and fire departments to ensure that Birmingham remained, as Martin Luther King described it, “the most segregated city in America” (King, 50).
- On Apr 12, 1963: Bull Connor Orders Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and ...When the marchers neared a second police barricade, Commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor gave the officers clear orders: “Stop them… Don’t let them go any further!” Connor was a notorious segregationist with close ties to the Ku Klux Klan.
- Bull Connor - WikipediaTheophilus Eugene "Bull" Connor (July 11, 1897 – March 10, 1973) was an American politician who served as Commissioner of Public Safety for the city of Birmingham, Alabama, for more than two decades. A member of the Democratic Party, he strongly opposed the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
- Eugene "Bull" Connor - Civil Rights, Life & Facts - BiographyEugene "Bull" Connor was a radio sportscaster before entering state politics and became Birmingham's public safety commissioner in 1937. With the growing civil rights movement of the 1950s and...
- Segregation at All Costs: Bull Connor and the Civil Rights MovementNational History Day documentary on Bull Connor, Birmingham's Commissioner of Public Safety, whose use of police dogs and fire hoses on civil rights demonstr...
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