Democrat attack on Birmingham, Alabama schoolchildren

On this day in 1963, police in Birmingham, Alabama -- under the command of the Democrat sheriff, Eugene "Bull" Connor -- attacked several thousand African-American schoolchildren who were demonstrating peacefully for their civil rights.  Connor's men used high-pressure hoses, clubs and police dogs in their assault, and then jailed nearly a thousand children.

At the time, it should be noted, Connor was the Democratic National  Committeeman for Alabama.  A member of the Ku Klux Klan, Connor had been a Democrat state legislator and a delegate to the 1948 Democratic National Convention.  A year after attacking the African-American children, Connor was elected, as a Democrat, president of the state Public Service Commission.

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