| Summary: | Connor had served a 48-hour sentence for contempt of court after police seized a print of the controversial movie, FRENCH GIRLS CLUB, despite a court order allowing the movie to be shown. Several related photographs were published in the Birmingham News on January 22, 1941, with the following caption: "No Parade for Bull - They had a band and hundreds of Police Commissioner Eugene (Bull) Connor's friends ready for a parade from Courthouse to City Hall Wednesday when he was released from County Jail, but Connor passed up the parade with his thanks. But the band, pictured below, serenaded Connor with 'Dixie' and went on to the commissioner's City Hall office to play 'Happy Days Are Here Again.' Shown at top are Connor (right), being welcomed back to City Hall by Commissioners Jimmie Morgan (left) and Cooper Green (center). Inset shows Connor as he departed from the jail, after paying 60 cents food bill required by a 1907 statute."
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