Eugene "Bull" Connor was Birmingham’s Commissioner of Public Safety in 1961 when the Freedom Riders came to town. He was known as an ultra-segregationist with close ties to the KKK. Connor ...

The city's commissioner for public safety, Bull Connor, ordered the police ... where central figures in the civil rights movement, including Dr King, stayed. It's a sombre experience to visit ...

In the late '50s, civil rights leader the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth ... would fire them up so that they could get ready to face Bull Connor and the dogs." Choir member Jessie Shepherd participated ...