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...most Birmingham Negroes, just beating the city's tough police commissioner, Theophilus Eugene ("Bull") Connor, in his bid for mayor seemed a major triumph. It was the Negro vote that gave former Lieutenant Governor Albert Boutwell a narrow margin of victory in the April 2 election. Connor had become such a symbol of the nightstick solution to race problems that local Negroes felt certain that they could deal more successfully with Boutwell, even though he is a segregationist...
Reverting to Form. At first, King had trouble mustering any sizable group of Negro troops. When his demonstrators did show up some owners quietly closed their downtown lunch counters, did not even call police. Connor's cops made some routine arrests, but seemed uncommonly gentle about...
Predictably, however, King's movement attracted an increasing number of Negroes-and just as predictably, Connor reverted to form. He broke up a march on city hall by ordering mass arrests. "Call the wagons, Sergeant, I'm hungry," barked Bull. Next day he called out his police dogs. A 19-year-old Negro youth took a swipe at one with a clay pipe. The dog turned on the boy, and a crowd of Negroes surged forward, one carrying a knife. It took some 15 cops and their dogs to break up the melee...
Last week Connor and Police Chief Jamie Moore got an injunction against all demonstrations from a state court. King announced that he would ignore it, led some 1,000 Negroes toward the business district. Both King and one of his top aides, the Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, were promptly thrown into jail...
After John O'Connor won the 1000 yd. run for H.C. in 2:20.9, Harvard's Hamlin, Meehan, and Dick Hawkins swept the 2-mile run to prove that the Crimson was not helpless in endurance events. Then, just in case somebody was still watching, H.C. ended the meet by winning the 1 and 2 mile relays...