Word: connors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Also on the panel was Russell Connor, television lecturer at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts...
...Judge, A. J. Connor of the U.S. District Court of New Hampshire, gave Sarah Polansky '64 of Gilman House the minimum 60-day suspended sentence. Miss Polansky, daughter of a Lancaster, Mass., veterinarian, is a chemistry major who will graduate in February...
...afternoon, King called a mass meeting at theNew Pilgrim Baptist Church. Outside, Bull Connor massed 50 policemen and a fire truck with water pressure cranked up to 700 Ibs. When the crowd of 1,000 poured out of the church just before dusk, they lined up and marched toward the police. A police captain demanded their parade permit. They had none. Seeing the fire hoses, they knelt in silence as a Negro minister solemnly began to pray: "Let them turn their water on. Let them use their dogs. We are not leaving. Forgive them, O Lord." Suddenly, inexplicably...
...park. The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, one of King's top advisers, yelled helplessly at rioters from in front of the church, finally took a blast of water that slammed him violently against a wall. An ambulance took him away, and when Bull Connor heard about it later, he leered in mock despair: "I waited a week down here to see that, and then I missed it. I wish it had been a hearse." Now it was over. The Negroes were forced back into the church, and Commissioner Connor glared at the closed doors. Said he: "If any of those...
...Negro homes nearby went up in flames, then three more white men's buildings. The rioters, bathed in the flickering orange light of the flames, looted a liquor store and screamed into the night: "White man, we'll kill you!" Miraculously, there were no deaths. But Bull Connor's cops, frazzled from weeks of pressure, were all but helpless. Negro rioters ruled almost until dawn Sunday and calm came only after 250 Alabama state troopers invaded the city. As the sun rose Sunday, a sullen peace descended on Birmingham. There had been no winners...