| The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002. |
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| Birmingham |
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| City in north-central Alabama; largest city in the state. | 1 |
| ‡ Birmingham was the site of extreme racial violence during the civil rights movement. Although associated with specific race riots in 1963, Birmingham came to represent, as a whole, southern white resistance to integration. (See “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”) | 2 |
| ‡ Birmingham is known as the “Pittsburgh of the South” for its steel and iron production. | 3 |
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| | | The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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