Bull Connor was a Democrat

Grand Old Partisan celebrates more than seventeen decades of Republican heroes and heroics. Today, I denounce Democrat devilry. May 3rd 1963, police in Birmingham, Alabama – commanded by Democrat sheriff Eugene "Bull" Connor – attacked several thousand African-American schoolchildren who were demonstrating peacefully for their civil rights.

At the time, it should be noted, Connor was Democratic National Committeeman for Alabama. He had been elected, as a Democrat, president of the state Public Service Commission. 

Member of the Ku Klux Klan, Connor had been a Democrat state legislator. He was delegate for the 1948, 1956, 1964 and 1968 Democratic National Conventions.

Pages 192-93 of Back to Basics for the Republican Party describe how Connor's men used police dogs and high-pressure hoses and clubs in their assault, then jailed nearly a thousand children.

Back to Basics for the Republican Party is my civil rights history of the GOP. To quote the book: "The  we Republicans know about the history of our party, the more Democrats will worry about the future of theirs. For more information, see www.grandoldpartisan.com. 

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Michael Zak is author of Back to Basics for the Republican Party, a history of GOP civil rights achievement.

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