Squeal if you wish, but I and many others got safety and I don't recall any concomitant loss of civil liberty.
As I said, try walking in downtown Birmingham even just after nightfall today. The city is truly a City of Fear today. Perhaps you can explain to me why.
If you weren't involved in the "civil rights" protests, you probably weren't negatively impacted by "Bull" Connor.
But there is real ample evidence on film that peaceful protesters with some legitimate grievances were brutally assaulted and set upon by vicious dogs handled by the Birmingham police. Their civil liberties, specifically the right to peaceful assembly to ask for redress of grievances, were violated.
As I said, try walking in downtown Birmingham even just after nightfall today. The city is truly a City of Fear today.
Don't compare the "civil rights" protesters of yesteryear with today's (predominantly black, I presume) street criminals. Today's conditions are largely the sad result of L.B. Johnson's "Great Society," the negative impact it has had on black family structure for close to fifty years, and the consequent complete lack of civility among many of the residents of the inner city.