David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

(Darren Dugan) #1

sharper blow. The word around the
movement, afterward, was that he’d
broken Leo’s jaw. Hudson’s photograph
is not at all what the world thought it
was. It was a little bit of Brer Rabbit
trickery.
You got to use what you got.
“Sure, people got bit by the dogs,”
Walker said, looking back twenty years
later. “I’d say at least two or three. But a
picture is worth a thousand words,
dahlin’.”^11


1 In William Nunnelley’s biography
of Connor, titled Bull Connor,
Nunnelley identifies the relevant section
of the Birmingham city code as section

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