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|type of villain = Xenophobe / Corrupt Official | |type of villain = Xenophobe / Corrupt Official | ||
|goals = Keep Birmingham segregated (failed)<br>Defeat the Civil Rights Movement (failed) | |goals = Keep Birmingham segregated (failed)<br>Defeat the Civil Rights Movement (failed) | ||
|crimes = [[Racism]]<br>[[Hate crime]]s<br>[[Hate Speech|Hate speech]]<br>[[Negrophobia]]<br>[[Xenophobia]] | |crimes = [[Racism]]<br>[[Hate crime]]s<br>[[Hate Speech|Hate speech]]<br>[[Negrophobia]]<br>[[Xenophobia]]<br>[[Homophobia]]<br>[[Misogyny]]<br>[[Anti-Semitism]]<br>[[Animal cruelty]] | ||
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{{Quote|All you gotta do is tell them your going to bring the dogs. Look at em run. I want to see the dogs work.|Bull Connor}}'''Eugene "Bull" Connor''' (July 11th, 1897 – March 10th, 1973) was an American politician who served as an elected Commissioner of Public Safety for the city of Birmingham, Alabama, for more than two decades. He strongly opposed activities of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. Under the city commission government, Connor had responsibility for administrative oversight of the Birmingham Fire Department and the Birmingham Police Department, which also had their own chiefs. | {{Quote|All you gotta do is tell them your going to bring the dogs. Look at em run. I want to see the dogs work.|Bull Connor}}'''Eugene "Bull" Connor''' (July 11th, 1897 – March 10th, 1973) was an American politician who served as an elected Commissioner of Public Safety for the city of Birmingham, Alabama, for more than two decades. He strongly opposed activities of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. Under the city commission government, Connor had responsibility for administrative oversight of the Birmingham Fire Department and the Birmingham Police Department, which also had their own chiefs. | ||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
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In 1961 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregated interstate bus terminals were unconstitutional, and soon afterward a group of activists, calling themselves the Freedom Riders, rode into southern strongholds. They determined that if they were arrested, the Justice Department would be forced to act on their behalf, and Alabama's bus lines would be desegregated. | In 1961 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregated interstate bus terminals were unconstitutional, and soon afterward a group of activists, calling themselves the Freedom Riders, rode into southern strongholds. They determined that if they were arrested, the Justice Department would be forced to act on their behalf, and Alabama's bus lines would be desegregated. | ||
However, when the Freedom Riders reached Birmingham on 14 May, Connor gave full support to a group of Ku Klux | However, when the Freedom Riders reached Birmingham on 14 May, Connor gave full support to a group of [[Ku Klux Klan]]smen that set upon one of the buses, reportedly telling them to keep up their attack until the riders "looked like a bulldog got ahold of them." This was the first of the major standoffs over segregation involving Connor. | ||
The 1960s was an era that increasingly called for compromise in race relations, but Connor stubbornly played the hard line, resisting integration as long as he remained in office. In December of 1961, rather than desegregate, Connor and his two fellow commissioners closed down Birmingham's sixty-seven parks, thirty-eight playgrounds, and four golf courses. Birmingham was given a choice to either integrate their minor-league baseball team, the Barons, or give it up. They gave it up. | The 1960s was an era that increasingly called for compromise in race relations, but Connor stubbornly played the hard line, resisting integration as long as he remained in office. In December of 1961, rather than desegregate, Connor and his two fellow commissioners closed down Birmingham's sixty-seven parks, thirty-eight playgrounds, and four golf courses. Birmingham was given a choice to either integrate their minor-league baseball team, the Barons, or give it up. They gave it up. | ||
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