THE BIRMINGHAM TIMES - Center Point’s Catherine Burks Brooks said the bus brought back memories. “Is that the bus that we came in here on? No. It’s similar to that,” she said. “That bus reminds me of that Ole Bull, Bull Connor (the Birmingham Public Safety Commissioner). We called him, ‘That Ole Bull.’” May 19 was the anniversary of the bus of Freedom Riders arrived in Birmingham. The replica bus left for Montgomery after the stop in the Magic City and arrived the following day at 10:23 a.m., the same time it arrived in the state capital six decades ago.| By Solomon Crenshaw Jr. | The Birmingham Times Dozens of patrons visited the parking lot of the Birmingham Public Library’s Central Branch last week to tour a traveling artifact and to hear from two people who had a front-seat view of history. The Freedom Riders Museum rolled a 1957 vintage Greyhound bus into the parking […]
