Catherine burks brooks death today

  • Catherine Burks-Brooks (October 8, 1939 –.
  • Catherine Burks-Brooks, 83, Freedom Rider Who Had the Last Word, Dies.
  • Burks-Brooks, who later joined the rides and was once arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, and held for 39 days in Parchman State Prison, died Monday at her home.

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    Birmingham Freedom Rider Catherine Burks-Brooks dies at 83

    “Mr. Bull” is what she called him. It’s what Catherine Burks-Brooks called Eugene (Bull) Connor on the morning of May 18, 1961.

    The segregationist Birmingham Police Commissioner had driven the 21-year-old Birmingham native and nine other young civil rights activists to the Alabama border after the group, all college students in Nashville, ventured to Birmingham to support the Freedom Riders, who encountered violence in Anniston in Birmingham as they challenged segregation on interstate buses throughout the South.

    Connor wasn’t having it. He forced the group to Ardmore near the state line and dumped them—at what turned out not to be a bus station but an abandoned warehouse.

    Burks-Brooks wasn’t having it.

    “We’ll see you back in Birmingham at high noon,” she shouted at Connor, “Mr. Bull.”

    Burks-Brooks, who later joined the rides and was once arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, and held for 39 days in Parchman State Prison,

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    Freedom Rider Catherine Burks-Brooks dies at age 83

    Alabama Media Group
    Catherine Burks-Brooks in 2011, holding kopia of kopp shot taken at the time of her fängelse in 1961.

    Dr. Catherine Burks-Brooks, a member of the Freedom Riders with a Nashville connection, has died at age 83. Burks-Brooks was among the Nashville students who joined the original 13 Freedom Riders in May 1961, after violent attacks by vit mobs in Alabama.

    She  grew up in Birmingham, and “from a very ung age, she developed a sharp tongue, a critical eye, and a strong sense of justice,” according to a family statement.

    Burks-Brooks notably confronted Bull Connor, the person som stödjer segregation Birmingham commissioner of public safety, after he arrested the students and drove them to the Alabama-Tennessee state line.

    She discussed the encounter during a 2011 broadcast on Nashville Public Television.

    “They threw our luggage out on the ground, and Bull pointed to a building and he said ‘There’s a tr

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    Catherine Burks-Brooks, Freedom Rider, dies at 83

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