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buoyed me with the inspiration of another moment which I shall never forget: when I saw with my own eyes over three thousand young Negro boys and girls, totally unarmed, leave Birmingham’s 16 th Street Baptist Church to march to a prayer meeting—ready to pit nothing but the power of their bodies and souls against Bull Connor’s police dogs, clubs, and fire hoses.More quotes »
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To the Class of 2013: Resist Simplicity
skipped commencement exercises entirely because their graduates were all heading off to World War II. Fifty years ago, Bull Connor was setting fire hoses and police dogs on civil-rights marchers in Birmingham, Alabama. And 45 years ago, today’s exercises would from Bloomberg.com Read more »
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Bull Connor was a Democrat
this day in 1963, police in Birmingham, Alabama -- under the command of the Democrat sheriff, Eugene "Bull" Connor -- attacked several thousand African-American schoolchildren who were demonstrating peacefully for their civil rights. Connor's men used high-pressure from Grand Old Partisan Read more »
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What Martin Luther King, Jr. did in Birmingham Jail: The prophet unbound
thing to sing, “I’m on my way to Canaan land,” another to walk out the church door and risk the wrath of the diabolical Bull Connor. Another verse, “If you don’t go, don’t you hinder me,” hinted at the nagging fear, “what if there were giants in the land of from The Washington Post Read more »
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Birmingham, Ala., embraces its complex history
took place in Birmingham: the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter From Birmingham Jail"; Public Safety Commissioner Bull Connor's use of attack dogs and fire hoses against peaceful demonstrators, many of them children; and the bombing of the Sixteenth Street from Biloxi Sun Herald Read more »
