Bull Connor Quotes


I may not be able to do it but I’ll die trying.


Context

stop the civil rights movement


Citations

Eugene ‘Bull’ Connor, 1897–1973, Chief of Police, Birmingham, Alabama, 1962, PBS, The March, August 30, 2013, Response to a reporter who asked him if he could stop the force that was bringing thousands of protesters to the South to put an end to segregation., PBS, The March, August 30, 2013

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Bull Connor
  • Born: July 11, 1897
  • Died: March 10, 1973
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Theophilus Eugene “Bull” Connor was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served as Commissioner of Public Safety for the city of Birmingham, Alabama, for more than two decades. He strongly opposed the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. Under the city commission government, Connor had responsibility for administrative oversight of the Birmingham Fire Department and the Birmingham Police Department, which also had their own chiefs.