Word: connors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...symbol of the segregated life of Birmingham. The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, who stepped into the national limelight when he asked Dr. Martin Luther King to lead massive demonstrations in 1963, became a well-known local leader eight years earlier when he began carrying petitions to Police Commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor asking that the force be integrated...
...portent of that was Bull Connor's own statement, when he first became commissioner back in the '30's, that he favored Negro police on the force. The idea, no doubt, was to relieve whites of the task of looking after Negroes. The cops themselves were adamantly opposed. As late as October, 1963, five months after Birmingham's voters ousted the three-man city commission and replaced it with a racially moderate mayor and city council, and one month to the day after the Birmingham church bombing, the Fraternal Order of Police issued a statement asserting that hiring Negro policemen...
...results of Birmingham's efforts will no doubt be less spectacular than Atlanta's. For one thing, Atlanta, which Birmingham still considers its chief rival, was becoming "the city too busy to hate" while Birmingham was re-electing Bull Connor. And even now, Birmingham officials will not be prone to make the sweeping statements of support for legislation that Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen proudly puts forth. The powerful Birmingham businessmen who got Negro police warns, "We've got some pretty tough whites in this town...
...format, Family is like every other O'Connor book. The scene is a place very much like Boston and the Irish-Catholic community-bounded by faith, politics and new money-that O'Connor has explored so often before. On his trip, however, he has no clear idea where he wants to go, except that his :amily should resemble the Kennedy clan only in the most superficial aspects. The book drifts in two unsynchronized directions. One leads past Jimmy Kinsella, a second-generation Irish Croesus who has prodded his youngest son Charles into the Governor's mansion...
...ever been in in my life," "the most uncomfortable interval of my life," "the most grown-up boy of around my age I had ever met"-and with synthetic velocity: "Suddenly, another letter came," "Suddenly I knew." Loyal readers will suddenly feel that this novel is not O'Connor at his best...