The very brutality of Bull Connor, seen across the country and the world on the TV news, generated tremendous support for the civil rights movement. I suspect that King, Bevel, Walker ...

Motley’s heroic role in it would help lay the groundwork for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ... Soon, though, Bull Connor, Birmingham’s notoriously racist commissioner of public safety, ordered ...

Kennedy sparred with Bork over civil rights, privacy and sex discrimination ... Even if Kennedy’s depiction of Bork as Bull Connor in a judicial robe was, arguably, over the top, the ...

In the 1963 confrontations conceived by civil rights activists led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Americans and the world saw television footage of “Bull” Connor and his police ... The Civil Rights ...

When it comes to violence, grotesque fiction, and a flair for irony, no Southern writer during the 20th century did it better than Flannery O’Connor ... of the civil rights movement.

the notorious segregationist who took part in a day-long filibuster in protest of the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. One day after his record-breaking speech, I spoke to Booker about why ...

Strom Thurmond, who spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes in a failed effort to derail the Civil Rights Act of 1957 ... to witness this historic feat) … Bull Connor, thank you.

Look at those niggers run.” The very brutality of Bull Connor, seen across the country and the world on the TV news, generated tremendous support for the civil rights movement. I suspect that King, ...

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