• Water Hoses and Vicious Dogs

    BBVA Stoked the “Same Fiery Furnace” of Segregation and Intolerance

    During the Civil Rights struggles in the 1960s in the United States, racists brutally and violently attacked African-Americans. In 1963 in Birmingham, the Commissioner of Public Safety Eugene “Bull” Connor unleashed water hoses and vicious dogs on African-American children and adults. The brutality of Bull Connor’s actions are now an ugly legacy of intolerance and unfathomable conduct. And guess who supported and was an ally of Bull Connor during the…