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 ...

Responsible government officials, organizations must stand up to his strong-arm tactics and human and civil rights violations ...

Tom Homan’s intense swagger and promise to “run the biggest deportation force this country has ever seen” is reminiscent of ...

where the riders found themselves unprotected by commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor’s police force. Mr. Person recalled that he and a White Freedom Rider, James Peck, had been assigned to ...

Though not as physically large a man as Homan, Bull Connor, emboldened by his ties ... his clever plan to discourage civil rights “freedom riders” by holding back his police and giving ...