Word: connors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...because officials refused to integrate the municipal auditorium. Parks were shut down last year, because officials would not integrate them after a court order. Unquestionably, Birmingham was the toughest segregation town in the South, from the Negroes' viewpoint. And it was symbolized by Public Safety Commissioner Eugene ("Bull") Connor, who had cowed Negroes for 23 years with hoarse threats and club-swinging cops. It was against Connor's Birmingham that King began secretly recruiting volunteers just before last Christmas. King and Connor clashed headon. The commissioner had his cops-plus a pack of snarling police dogs...
...began when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. decided to throw schoolchildren into the Negro battle line. Police Commissioner Eugene ("Bull") Connor, arch-segregationist, viciously retaliated with club-swinging cops, police dogs and blasts of water from fire hoses. There were no winners in Birmingham last week...
...some no more than six years old-the Negro minister sent wave after wave of sign carriers from the 16th Street Baptist Church to march on downtown Birmingham. On the first day, the demonstrations were a bit like a picnic. The youngsters clapped and sang excitedly, and when Connor's men arrested them, they scampered almost merrily into patrol wagons. About 800 youthful Negroes wound up in Birmingham jails that...
...Negro adults from the park began muttering, then shouting threats at Connor's cops. Furious, the commissioner roared for his police dogs. The crowd in the park edged back; some hurried away. "Look at 'em run," yelled Bull. He saw an officer holding back a crowd of white people near by. "Let those people come to the corner, sergeant," shouted Connor. "I want 'em to see the dogs work. Look at those niggers...
...Connor called for joint government-industry task forces to recommend the legal and administrative measures necessary to restore business confidence in Latin America. Without that, concluded Connor, private enterprise-and the Alliance-is doomed. "Private enterprise requires order and a minimum of certainty. Disorder drives capital out of an area, not because it is timid, but because it is scarce. It is the product of work and savings, and it abhors irresponsibility, wastage and misuse. In the midst of the current chaos in Latin America, the U.S. corporation is about as much at home as a bishop in a poker...