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 ...

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

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

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 ...