Birmingham, Alabama, US: America's infamous city transformed

By John Huxley
May 7 2016 - 12:15am
Scenes at the funeral for the young girls killed in the notorious race bombing.
 Photo: Chicago History Museum/Getty Images
Scenes at the funeral for the young girls killed in the notorious race bombing. Photo: Chicago History Museum/Getty Images

For a city once known as swampy Mudville, built by cheap child and non-unionised, African-American labour, and named after the grimy British industrial metropolis, Birmingham, Alabama, has come a long, long way.

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