Birmingham, AL: The 1000 Names of Birmingham

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.