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.

Saw Bull Connor. William Harbour, Freedom Rider: We got on the outside, they had two police cruisers and a limousine, loaded us up, and start driving, 1:00 in the morning.

Freedom Rider Catherine Burks Brooks said that Police Commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor personally dropped them off and told the group not to come back. (Birmingham News file) Don't Edit ...

Catherine Burks-Brooks, who as a 21-year-old Freedom Rider was among a small group of Nashville students who kept the movement to desegregate public transportation in the South going after its ...

At 4:15 that afternoon, the bus reached the terminal in Birmingham, where the riders found themselves unprotected by commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor’s police force. Mr.

May 4 marked the 60th Anniversary of the first group of Freedom Riders setting off on passenger buses from Washington, D.C., destined for New Orleans.

At her home in Center Point, AL in 2011, Catherine Burks-Brooks displays the photo taken at the time of her arrest as a freedom rider in May 1961. By . ... (Bull) Connor on the morning of May 18 ...

HOLLYWOOD — John Crimber, the 18-year-old bull-riding phenom for the Florida Freedom, sat down in the dirt near the bull pen and read from a Bible. The Florida Freedom, who will compete in their ...

At 4:15 that afternoon, the bus reached the terminal in Birmingham, where the riders found themselves unprotected by commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor’s police force. Mr.

At 4:15 that afternoon, the bus reached the terminal in Birmingham, where the riders found themselves unprotected by commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor’s police force. Mr.