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title: "Why did President Kennedy say that Alabama's Bull Connor had helped the Civil Rights movement as much as Lincoln?"  
description: "Why did President Kennedy say that Alabama's Bull Connor had helped the Civil Rights movement as much as Lincoln?"  
author: "Ward ryan"  
published: 2018-05-21  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/42741/why-did-president-kennedy-say-that-alabama-s-bull-connor-had-helped-the-civil-rights-movement-as-much-as-lincoln  
category: "history, politics & society"  
tags: ["usa history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Why did President Kennedy say that Alabama's Bull Connor had helped the Civil Rights movement as much as Lincoln? 

Why did [President Kennedy](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/42865/what-effect-did-the-soviet-union-s-sending-a-man-into-space-in-1961-have-on-president-kennedy) [say](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/80701/is-it-difficult-to-just-say-no) that Alabama's Bull Connor had helped the Civil [Rights movement](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/41835/what-event-marked-the-beginning-of-organized-women-s-rights-movement) as much as Lincoln?


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