RACIST DEMOCRATIC PARTY: 2 May 1963 - Democrats attacked thousands of African-Am

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May 02, 2008
Democrats attacked thousands of African-American schoolchildren in Birmingham, Alabama

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.  At the time, it should be noted, Connor was the Democratic National  Committeeman for Alabama.  Connor's men used high-pressure hoses, clubs and dogs in their assault, and then jailed nearly a thousand children.

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.

Bull Connor, Democrat.

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