Bull Connor

Bull Connor was a prominent law enforcement official in Birmingham, Alabama, during the 1950s and 1960s. He is known for his strong opposition to the Civil Rights Movement and for using aggressive tactics, including police dogs, fire hoses, and mass arrests, to suppress protests advocating racial equality. His actions drew national and international criticism and highlighted the severe racial tensions in the American South during that era. Connor’s legacy is associated with resistance to racial integration and the fight for civil rights, making him a symbolic figure of the entrenched segregationist attitudes of his time.