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    Theophilus Eugene "Bull" Connor (July 11, 1897 – March 10, 1973) was an American politician who served as Commissioner of Public Safety for the city of...
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  • Commissioner of Public Safety, Eugene "Bull" Connor. Described as an "arch-segregationist" by Time magazine, Connor asserted that the city "ain't gonna segregate...
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    another progressive effort, this time to unseat Public Safety Commissioner Bull Connor, the form of government was again changed by referendum. Reorganized...
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  • National Football League player Bull Buchanan, ring name of Barry Buchanan (born 1968), American wrestler Bull Connor (1897–1973), American politician...
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  • again the next day. The marches were stopped by the head of police, Bull Connor, who brought fire hoses to ward off the children and set police dogs...
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    stronghold of Alabama, where Birmingham Police Commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor conspired with local chapters of the Klan to attack the Riders. On May...
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  • (kin of Connor), of Irish origin mostly found in Ireland. MacConnor or McConnor comes from Irish Mac Conchobhair, son of Conchobhair Bull Connor (1897–1973)...
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    hoses are used for crowd control (see also water cannon), including by Bull Connor in the Birmingham campaign against protesters during the Civil Rights...
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    (primarily as a way to remove Commissioner of Public Safety Eugene "Bull" Connor from power). By Alabama law, an issue before a city council must be approved...
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  • borrowed the phrase from infamous Birmingham, Alabama, police chief Bull Connor. Connor had declared in 1963 he would use dogs and fire hoses to quell unrest...
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  • 1963 and witness firefighters and police officers, under the orders of Bull Connor, spraying black protesters with fire hoses and releasing German Shepherds...
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    seeking a second consecutive term. Albert Boutwell, Lieutenant Governor Bull Connor, Birmingham Public Safety Commissioner Jim Folsom, former Governor Ryan...
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  • Alabama. He worked together with the Birmingham Police Commissioner, Bull Connor, and Police Sergeant Tom Cook (an avid Ku Klux Klan supporter) to organize...
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    Alabama, an FBI informant reported that Public Safety Commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor gave Ku Klux Klan members fifteen minutes to attack an incoming group...
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    were arrested by Bull Connor and jailed. The students kept their spirits up in jail by singing freedom songs. Out of frustration, Connor drove them back...
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  • off against Commissioner of Public Safety Bull Connor, Connor arrested 900 on one day alone. The next day Connor unleashed billy clubs, police dogs, and...
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  • (AIP-CA) Tom Turnipseed, President of the Wallace Forum Association (D-SC) Bull Connor, President of the Alabama Public Service Commission (D-AL) William J...
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    how "[Condi] used to call me and say things like, 'Did you see what Bull Connor did today?' She was just a little girl and she did that all the time...
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  • States." Birmingham's Commissioner of Public Safety, Theophilus Eugene "Bull" Connor, led the effort in enforcing racial segregation in the city through the...
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  • council candidates that successfully changed the city charter and ousted "Bull" Connor and his segregationist supporters from City Hall. After a single term...
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  • visit. In Birmingham, Alabama, protest from public safety commissioner Bull Connor insisted that black and white people would wait for the train in separate...
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  • that ran the city, a trio which included police commissioner Eugene (Bull) Connor. Hanes would also serve as legal counsel for defendants in two important...
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    Birmingham, they also created a split between Connor and the business leaders. They resented both the damage Connor was doing to Birmingham's image around the...
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    Southern Democrat Bull Connor, a 1960s symbol of white opposition to the civil rights movement, saying: "George Bush is our Bull Connor." A few days later...
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    2015. "Connor Farrell Joins Featherstone". Wigan Warriors. 22 July 2017. Retrieved 10 September 2017. "Former Wigan Warriors and Bradford Bulls forward...
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  • The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene "Bull" Connor, was given the Carter G. Woodson Book Award (The National Council for...
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    provoked Bull Connor and his police forces by using young teenagers as demonstrators – and Connor arrested 900 in one day alone. The next day Connor unleashed...
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  • challenging both Birmingham's segregation laws and Local Police Commissioner Bull Connor's authority, Gaston opposed the plan and tried to deflect the campaign...
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  • Commissioner For Public Safety against former office holder Eugene "Bull" Connor, who won that election in 1957. As with most elections during this time...
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    brutal response of local police, led by Public Safety Commissioner "Bull" Connor, stood in stark contrast to the nonviolent civil disobedience of the...
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