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In 1963 Birmingham, Alabama, made worldwide headlines as the site of some of the most vicious attacks of the civil rights movement, when notorious police chief Eugene “Bull” Connor unleashed attack dogs and fire hoses on protestors in an effort to enforce segregation. Connor also instructed his officers to look the other way as white-cloaked Ku Klux Klan members viciously beat black Birmingham residents. One of those members went so far as to toss a bomb into an African-American church, killing four young black girls who were attending Sunday school. Those living through this reign of terror could not have imagined that a successor to Connor’s seat was in their very midsts—a four-year-old African-American girl named Annetta Watts Nunn. Yet, 40 years later, Nunn did just that, becoming the firs

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