Bull Connor was the Commissioner of Public Safety in Birmingham in the 1960s and led a violent crackdown on civil rights protestors.
This violent crackdown included the siccing of police dogs on protestors and the use of fire hoses on protestors. National attention turned to the treatment of the protestors when news reports showed video of how the protestors were being violently attacked by the police and public opinion turned against Bull Connor.
The earliest human inhabitants of the Amazon created thousands of artificial forest islands as they tamed wild plants to grow food, a new study shows. The earliest human inhabitants of the Amazon created thousands of artificial forest islands as they tamed wild plants to grow food, a new study shows.
The Potsdam Conference, 1945. The Big Three—Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (replaced on July 26 by Prime Minister Clement Attlee), and U.S. President Harry Truman—met in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II.
A former federation of Communist republics occupying the northern half of Asia and part of eastern Europe; capital, Moscow. Full name Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
