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| Birmingham view from Vulcan Park on Red Mountain, Birmingham, Alabama. August 2020. |
The 1000 names of Birmingham:
- Magic City (1872)
- El Dorado of the Iron Masters (1873)
- Bombingham (1947-1963+)
- Boomingham (also referring to the regular bombings)
- Tragic City
- The Most Segregated City in the Country (I don't know: St. Louis might be a contender)
- Birmingham: "a heart as hard as the steel it manufactures and as black as the coal it mines"
- City of Churches
- Biggest City in America for its Age
- City of Perpetual Promise
- Murder Capital of the World
- The Munich of Southern Capitulation (1938)
- Pittsburgh of the South (1909)
- Best Little Dangerous City in the South (Birmingham subreddit)
- Forest City
- Heaviest Corner on Earth (1912)
- The Diverse City (get it?)(2006)
- Toxic City
I gleaned many of the nicknames above from the book, Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution, by Diane McWhorter.
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