Bull Connor, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Bull Connor

Birmingham, Alabama public safety commissioner during the Civil Rights Movement

Date of Birth: 11-Jul-1897

Place of Birth: Selma, Alabama, United States

Date of Death: 10-Mar-1973

Profession: politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Theophilus Eugene Connor (July 11, 1897 – March 10, 1973), known as Bull Connor, was an American politician who served as Commissioner of Public Safety for the city of Birmingham, Alabama, for more than two decades.
He strongly opposed activities of the American 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.
Connor was a Southern Democrat. Connor enforced legal racial segregation and denied civil rights to black citizens, especially during the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's Birmingham campaign of 1963.
He became an international symbol of institutional racism.
Bull Connor directed the use of fire hoses and police attack dogs against civil rights activists; child protestors were also subject to these attacks.
National media broadcast these tactics on television, horrifying much of the country.
The outrages served as catalysts for major social and legal change in the Southern United States and contributed to passage by the United States Congress of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.