National History Day documentary on Bull Connor, Birmingham’s Commissioner of Public Safety, whose use of police dogs and fire hoses on civil rights demonstrators dramatically backfired and called national attention to the Civil Rights Movement.
2011/09/25
Segregation at All Costs: Bull Connor and the Civil Rights Movement
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