Bull Connor

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/21/2022
  

  Biden Defends Bull Connor Analogy for Opponents of Voting Rights Bill

  Eddie Glaude, chair of African American Studies at Princeton, called the outrage over the analogy a "disingenuous" reflection of Republicans' concern for being called racist exceeding their concern for racist practices. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/17/2021
  

  Tom Lankford, 85, Dies; Southern Journalist With Divided Loyalties

  Tom Lankford took many iconic photographs in Birmingham that publicized the cause of Civil Rights protestors. But he worked behind the scenes to cultivate relationships with the city's notorious Bull Connor to buttress the reputation of the police force while working with his publisher to squelch local demands for change that threatened the business community.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/01/2020
  

  Trump’s Warning that ‘Vicious Dogs’ Would Attack Protesters Conjured Centuries of Racial Terror

  Donald Trump invoked images of terror to discourage protesters against racial injustice according to historians Tyler D. Parry and Taylor Branch.