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The diehard flank of Southern segregationist leaders who closed city parks and public schools to prevent racial integration eventually alienated their support from many Southern whites. Connor's handling of Birmingham reached such levels of unpopularity by 1962 to the point of the city's white business leaders and majority population voting for a reform of the government to water down the longtime commissioner's power.<ref name=alencyclopediabio/>
The diehard flank of Southern segregationist leaders who closed city parks and public schools to prevent racial integration eventually alienated their support from many Southern whites. Connor's handling of Birmingham reached such levels of unpopularity by 1962 to the point of the city's white business leaders and majority population voting for a reform of the government to water down the longtime commissioner's power.<ref name=alencyclopediabio/>
===Gun control===
Conservative diplomat [[Condoleezza Rice]] of the [[George W. Bush]] Administration, who grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, in the midst of white supremacist mob violence, opposes [[gun control]] laws due to the role of the [[Second Amendment]] in ensuring the protection of her family from terrorists. Rice's childhood friend Denise McNair was among the murdered victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, and a family friend's home was likewise bombed.<ref name=whitaker>Whitaker, Matthew C. (March 9, 2011). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Icons_of_Black_America_3_volumes/LRfOEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=bull+connor+gun+control&pg=PA753&printsec=frontcover Icons of Black America: Breaking Barriers and Crossing Boundaries], p. 753. ''Google Books''. Retrieved October 3, 2023.</ref>
According to Rice, mandatory gun registration would have resulted in Connor confiscating her family's firearms.<ref name=whitaker/>
==Death and legacy==
==Death and legacy==