Eugene "Bull" Connor was the Police Commissioner of Birmingham, Alabama in 1937. On August 16, 1940, Bull Connor was given a special tour of the FBI in Washington, D.C. and gave high praise for the laboratory and expressed his regards for the Birmingham Field Office. On June 30, 1951, Walter White, NAACP executive secretary, announced that they were asking for a federal probe of the Birmingham Police Department because of the ruthless handling of Negroes in Birmingham by the police department and Commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor. In 1959, Bull Connor called for maintaining segregation in Birmingham. In 1954, Connor was defeated as Sheriff of Jefferson County, Alabama. Bull Connor was involved in several Civil Rights cases.
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