Eugene "Bull" Connor, former Birmingham, Ala. police commissioner and fiery segregationist, gestures during his speech, June 8, 1963, to the Tuscaloosa, Alabama County White Citizens Council.

“Nobody knows who Bull Connor is, if we’re making the case to say if you’re gonna be with Martin Luther King or Bull Connor. Who’s that?” she said.

Biden was referring to Wallace, the segregationist and former governor of Alabama who fought to stop the integration of his state’s flagship university; to Connor, the Southern sheriff and white ...

Eugene "Bull" Connor, former Birmingham, Ala. police commissioner and fiery segregationist, gestures during his speech, June 8, 1963, to the Tuscaloosa, Alabama County White Citizens Council.

Eugene "Bull" Connor was Birmingham’s Commissioner of Public Safety in 1961 when the Freedom Riders came to town. He was known as an ultra-segregationist with close ties to the KKK.

What a president should be doing at this moment is trying to calm the country and bring it together, not fantasizing about how glorious it would be to witness bloodshed just outside his doorstep.

Go back and read what I said and tell me if you think I called anyone who voted on the side of position taken by Bull Connor that they were Bull Connor,” Biden said in response to a questions ...

Birmingham public-safety commissioner Eugene ‘Bull’ Connor at a press conference in Birmingham, Ala., May 10, 1963. Photo: Bettmann Archive ...