Birmingham cultural definition

City in central England; England's second-largest city, after London, and an important industrial and transportation center.

City in north-central Alabama; largest city in the state.

• 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.”)
• Birmingham is known as the “Pittsburgh of the South” for its steel and iron production.